Ecclesiastical In plural. The prayers or offices appointed to be said at the seven stated times of the day allotted to prayer (canonical hours: see…

Christian Church. A service-book containing the day-hours: = diurnal, adj. 1. Obsolete.

Ecclesiastical. A service-book containing the day-hours, except matins (this being a night office); †hence, a book for devotional exercises; a…

In the Roman Catholic Church, the book containing the ‘Divine Office’ for each day, which those who are in orders are bound to recite.

Ecclesiastical. A book containing the offices for the canonical hours. Obsolete.

Greek Orthodox Church. A book containing the offices for the canonical hours; corresponding to a certain extent with the Western breviary.

= breviary, n. 2.

A book of hours (hour, n. 5 6).

a book of hours (sense 5).