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liturgical, a.|lɪˈtɜːdʒɪkəl|
[Formed as prec. + -al1.]
Pertaining to or connected with public worship; having to do with liturgies or forms of public worship, or spec. with the Liturgy or Eucharistic service. Also, pertaining to liturgics.
liturgical colours: the colours used in ecclesiastical vestments, hangings for the altar, etc., varying according to the season, festival, or kind of service. liturgical day: a day on which mass was celebrated. Liturgical Movement (see quot. 1957).
1641Milton Animadv. Wks. 1851 III. 202 The time is taken up with a tedious number of Liturgicall tautologies, and impertinencies. 1704Nelson Fest. & Fasts ix. (1739) 581 There being no less than five liturgical Words in that Text. 1849Rock Ch. of Fathers I. ii. 106 The greatest Liturgical scholars are divided on the meaning of this ordinance. Ibid. 172 The Anglo-Saxons got all their liturgical books from Rome. 1861Pearson Early & Mid. Ages Eng. 135 A liturgical service like that of the missal. 1875Chamb. Jrnl. No. 133. 54 The impressive pomp of liturgical ceremonial. 1894O. J. Reichel in Trans. Exeter Diocesan Archit. Soc. I. 30 That Pope writing to Decentius informs him that on ordinary liturgical days the presbyters consecrated with their bishop. 1929Tablet 17 Aug. 197/2 The proficiency of these youngsters has been acquired in our Catholic schools, the grand hope of the Liturgical Movement, and Catholic girls are not lagging behind Catholic boys. 1935A. G. Hebert Liturgy & Society v. 126 The so-called Liturgical Movement is concerned with things vastly more important than mere ritualism. 1957Oxf. Dict. Chr. Ch. 815/1 Liturgical Movement, a Movement of which the object is the restoration of the active participation by the people in the official worship of the Church. 1959Times Lit. Suppl. 29 May 325/3 Since the war the landscape of Christianity has been unmistakably changing..under the gradual pressures of that climate of opinion generally called the Liturgical Movement.
Hence liˈturgically adv., from a liturgical point of view; in a liturgy, in liturgical worship.
1864Goulburn Communion Office I. 77 Liturgically considered the Decalogue is to be regarded as a lesson from the Law. 1899T. K. Cheyne Chr. Use Psalms i. 18 The Psalms are all used liturgically. |