liturgy
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How to pronounce liturgy in British English:
英 [ˈlɪtədʒi]
How to pronounce liturgy in American English:
美 [ˈlɪtərdʒi]
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- Noun:
- a rite or body of rites prescribed for public worship
单词词源
- liturgy
- liturgy: [16] Etymologically, liturgy means ‘public performance’. It comes via late Latin līturgia from Greek leitourgíā ‘public service or worship’. This was a derivative of leitourgós ‘public servant’, hence ‘priest’, a compound formed from leit-, the stem of lēós ‘people, multitude’ (from which English gets layman), and érgon ‘work, action’ (source of English energy).=> energy, laity, lay
- liturgy (n.)
- 1550s, "the service of the Holy Eucharist," from Middle French liturgie or directly from Late Latin/Medieval Latin liturgia "public service, public worship," from Greek leitourgia "a liturgy; public duty, ministration, ministry," from leitourgos "one who performs a public ceremony or service, public servant," from leito- "public" (from laos "people;" compare leiton "public hall," leite "priestess;" see lay (adj.)) + -ergos "that works," from ergon "work" (see organ). Meaning "collective formulas for the conduct of divine service in Christian churches" is from 1590s.
双语例句
- 1. The council appeals to this liturgy in defending the mixed chalice against the armenians .
- 2. In western ukraine , the uniate church ( which uses orthodox liturgy , but obeys rome ) has played an important role in restoring academic life .
- 3. The parts of the liturgy that vary according to the particular feast or season of the year .
- 4. But over the centuries there have been rare and strange people who possessed the skill of taking the upheavals of thought that emanate from the big shaggy and representing them in the form of story music myth painting liturgy architecture sculpture landscape and speech .
- 5. The great church of milan , apparently the starting-point of the whole gallican use , was able to resist the influence of the roman liturgy .