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LITURGY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A rite or body of rites prescribed for public worship
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("liturgy" is a kind of...):
religious rite; rite (an established ceremony prescribed by a religion)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "liturgy"):
Christian liturgy (the Christian worship services)
Derivation:
liturgical (of or relating to or in accord with liturgy)
liturgist (an authority on liturgies)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A Christian sacrament commemorating the Last Supper by consecrating bread and wine
Synonyms:
Eucharist; Eucharistic liturgy; Holy Eucharist; Holy Sacrament; Liturgy; Lord's Supper; sacrament of the Eucharist
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("Liturgy" is a kind of...):
sacrament (a formal religious ceremony conferring a specific grace on those who receive it; the two Protestant ceremonies are baptism and the Lord's Supper; in the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church there are seven traditional rites accepted as instituted by Jesus: baptism and confirmation and Holy Eucharist and penance and holy orders and matrimony and extreme unction)
Meronyms (parts of "Liturgy"):
Offertory (the part of the Eucharist when bread and wine are offered to God)
Communion; Holy Communion; manduction; sacramental manduction (the act of participating in the celebration of the Eucharist)
Derivation:
liturgical (of or relating to or in accord with liturgy)
liturgist (an authority on liturgies)
