liturgical
adjective
of or relating to formal public worship or liturgies.
liturgically
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a word derived from
liturgical.
Example Sentences
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Leonard Bernstein was commissioned to write a theatrical piece for the center’s opening in 1971, which turned out to be an irreverent “Mass” — musically, liturgically, culturally and, most assuredly, politically.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 3, 2026
Overcast skies in Washington late Friday and early Saturday proved particularly frustrating, obscuring from view one of the most spiritually, culturally and liturgically meaningful full moons in the lunar calendar.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 16, 2022
Even more striking is the Second Symphony, a tribute to Copernicus, which pivots from a brutally dissonant opening section to a liturgically chanting climax.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 30, 2015
Secular choirs like the Tallis Scholars and the Sixteen have given visibility to the music we do day in, day out liturgically, and that brings us into the fold.
From New York Times ● Apr. 24, 2011
The earliest Greek elegies which have come down to us are not funereal, although it is possible that the primitive ἐλεγεία may have been a set of words liturgically used, with music, at a burial.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" by Various
