LITURGY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Liturgy mean? 

• LITURGY (noun)
  The noun LITURGY has 2 senses:

1. a Christian sacrament commemorating the Last Supper by consecrating bread and wine

2. a rite or body of rites prescribed for public worship

  Familiarity information: LITURGY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LITURGY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A Christian sacrament commemorating the Last Supper by consecrating bread and wine

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

Eucharist; Eucharistic liturgy; Holy Eucharist; Holy Sacrament; Liturgy; Lord's Supper; sacrament of the Eucharist

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)

Sense 2

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)

 Context examples 

Our liturgy, observed Crawford, has beauties, which not even a careless, slovenly style of reading can destroy; but it has also redundancies and repetitions which require good reading not to be felt.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)