Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One who uses or advocates the use of liturgical forms.
- n. A scholar in liturgics.
- n. A compiler of a liturgy or liturgies.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A leader in public worship; a liturge.
- n. An authority on liturgies; a liturgiologist.
- n. One who uses or favors the use of a liturgy.
Wiktionary
- n. A person knowledgable about liturgy.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who favors or adheres strictly to a liturgy.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an authority on liturgies
Examples
“Chaim was known as the liturgist of the reform movement of Judaism, and his move to Miami was welcomed.”
“If you've already read oodles about Samhain on the internet, you know its roots and know all that stuff about it being a Celtic new-year (a new calendar year in the NRDNA.) I'm a "do-er" not a "liturgist;" festivals for me are about doing interesting related projects.”
“Pope Joseph Ratzinger is not only a theologian, even before this he is a liturgist and a homilist.”
“He is a liturgist utterly committed to the modern reforms who has nevertheless noted the existence of serious critics.”
“In this instance, the Mass was being offered in the usus antiquior in memory of Abbé Franck-Marie Quoëx who was particularly known within French and Italian speaking Europe as an excellent Master of Ceremonies and liturgist.”
“The occasion was the publication by a prominent North American academic liturgist, John Baldovin SJ, of Reforming the Liturgy: A Response to the Critics.”
“He asked the parish liturgist who says: GIA, a Catholic Music Publisher, has produced these settings to make the stories of the Gospel come alive, be heard in a new way for congregations hearing them each Lent.”
“In fact, there isn't too much in here that today's "progressive liturgist" would find too disagreeable.”
“Durandus, a medieval liturgist, says, We desist from saying Alleluia, the song chanted by angels, because we have been excluded from the company of the angels on account of Adam's sin.”
“Entitled ‘Alter ad Alterum: The Seraphic Voice in the Liturgy’, the colloquium was led by the renown liturgist and musicologist, Professor László Dobszay, Fellow of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and member of the faculty of the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest.”
László Dobszay: Alter ad Alterum, The Seraphic Voice in the Liturgy
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