hebdomadary

• “(That's a good, catching phrase, "hebdomadary," though it's hard to say.”

  The Wrecker

• “After the seventh century, the Bishop of Palestrina was one of the hebdomadary prelates for the services of the Lateran basilica, and was, therefore, a cardinal; he is the fourth, in order, of the cardinal-bishops.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip

• “The prohibition of the use of fleshmeat and milk at one meal: the hebdomadary symposium of incoordinately abstract, perfervidly concrete mercantile coexreligionist excompatriots: the circumcision of male infants: the supernatural character of Judaic scripture: the ineffability of the tetragrammaton: the sanctity of the sabbath.”

  Ulysses

• “When I am alone I am a chimney with no hebdomadary repose; I smoke forever.”

  The Guest of Quesnay

• “Also on days when there is a principal or processional feast, each one of them, including the hebdomadary, is to have five eggs.”

  Alps and Sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino

• “Also if there is any cloistered person who has begun his week of being hebdomadary, and falls into such sickness that he cannot celebrate the same, the cantor is to say or celebrate three masses.”

  Alps and Sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino

• “Item, the pittancer is to serve out mashed beans to the servants of the convent during Lent as well as to those who are in religion, and at this season he is to provide the prior of the cloister and the hebdomadary with bruised cicerate; 58 but if any one of the same is hebdomadary, he is only to receive one portion.”

  Alps and Sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino

• “The cantor must sing the processional hymns which are sung on entering the church, but he is exempt from taking his turn of being hebdomadary by reason of his intoning the offices; and he is to write down the names of those who celebrate low masses and of those who get them said by proxy; and he is to report these last to the prior that they may be punished.”

  Alps and Sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino

• “Item, he is to pay the prior of the cloister six florins for his fine 56 ... and three florins to the .... 57 and he should also give five eggs per diem to the hebdomadary of the high altar, except in Lent.”

  Alps and Sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino

• “The Squire having expressed to his friend a desire of perambulating these boundaries, they proceeded, by the way of George street, to explore the sanctified labyrinths, the scenes of diurnal clamour, and hebdomadary conflict.”

  Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. Or, The Rambles And Adventures Of Bob Tallyho, Esq., And His Cousin, The Hon. Tom Dashall, Through The Metropolis; Exhibiting A Living Picture Of Fashionable Characters, Manners, And Amusements In High And Low Life (1821)

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