Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The book of services and prayers used in the Anglican Church.
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- proper noun The book containing the
liturgy of theChurch of England ; compiled by Thomas Cranmer in 1549 following the Act of Uniformity.
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- noun 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
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Examples
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The book's very title had already announced its to a Protestant shocking conclusion: that "searching the Scriptures," along with the Book of Common Prayer, would yield not the "obvious" conclusion--namely, that Protestantism was the way to go--but that the Scriptures themselves adequately demonstrated that the Roman Catholic Church was the one true church.
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The book's very title had already announced its to a Protestant shocking conclusion: that "searching the Scriptures," along with the Book of Common Prayer, would yield not the "obvious" conclusion--namely, that Protestantism was the way to go--but that the Scriptures themselves adequately demonstrated that the Roman Catholic Church was the one true church.
A Protestant Converted to Catholicity by Her Bible and Prayer-Book
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King's Chapel, if you're unfamiliar with it, is a liberal Christian church in the Unitarian Universalist Association that started out, way back in 1686, as the first Anglican church in New England; it became independent and unitarian in the 1780s, but has continued to use the Book of Common Prayer in its own distinctive way ever since.
Philocrites: Philocrites in the pulpit: King's Chapel, Dec. 13.
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King's Chapel, if you're unfamiliar with it, is a liberal Christian church in the Unitarian Universalist Association that started out, way back in 1686, as the first Anglican church in New England; it became independent and unitarian in the 1780s, but has continued to use the Book of Common Prayer in its own distinctive way ever since.
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For in that time the same church hierarchy has ruthlessly suppressed the King James Bible, along with the Book of Common Prayer.
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