divine service

American  

noun

1. service.

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divine service British  

noun

1. a service of the Christian church, esp one at which no sacrament is given

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Etymology

Origin of divine service

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400

Example Sentences

We went to football on Saturday and divine service on Sunday, often wearing the same kind of clothes — this was back when we dressed properly for a game.

From Salon

Besides confessing the nuns Busch and his fellow visitors went through the conventual routine with them, showing them how they ought to perform divine service, to behave in the frater and to hold chapters.

From Project Gutenberg

“Oh, dear me, no; but this man walks round p. 255the town just before divine service, and the ringing of his bell warns the people that it is time for them to go to church.”

From Project Gutenberg

They sung almost all their divine service, and every ministre had those that made up a quire whom the rest follow’d.

From Project Gutenberg

Others taught that divine service could be celebrated anywhere as well as in consecrated churches; that baptism could be performed by laymen in ponds and running streams.

From Project Gutenberg