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Wiktionary

  1. n. The book containing the liturgy of the Church of England; compiled by Thomas Cranmer in 1549 following the Act of Uniformity.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the Anglican service book of the Church of England; has had several revisions since the Reformation and is widely admired for the dignity and beauty of its language

Examples

  • “Book of Common Prayer the word minister occurs frequently in the sense of the officiant at a service, and in the thirty-second of the”

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman

  • “In the meantime the restored Houses of Convocation, from which the Presbyterian members were excluded, had completed their revision of the Book of Common Prayer and presented it to Parliament.”

    Andrew Marvell

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  1. service book

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. prayer book
  2. invocation
  3. church
  4. Psalter
  1. confession
  2. collectarium
  3. formulary
  4. litany
  1. Cranmer
  2. Common Prayer
  3. dust
  4. Bradford
  1. resonant
  2. Evening Prayer
  3. evensong
  4. subscription
  1. antecommunion
  2. commination
  3. end
  4. nonconformist
  1. passion
  2. reformed

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