Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The service of singing performed by a choir. Also called
choir-office .— - noun A service or an office chanted or recited in the choir of a church.
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Examples
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The whole of the description of this choir-service is equally beautiful with these stanzas; yet it may be objected that it in some degree impedes the progress of narration; and the tale is of that sort which will scarce brook any delay in the telling.
The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2 Various
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Office, corresponding to the solemn choir-service of the Latin
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913
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The Reformati ate cooked food only twice in the week, scourged themselves frequently, and recited daily, in addition to the universally prescribed choir-service, the Office of the Dead, the
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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Finally, clerks regular differ from canons regular in that they do not possess cathedral or collegiate churches, devote themselves more completely to ministerial work in place of choir-service, and have fewer penitential observances of rule.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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(also in verse) for use in choir-service and at meals, also poems in honour of the festivals of various saints, partly from his own pen and partly by Notker Labeo.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913
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William Geddes, "and his age, the choir-screen was intended to partition off the sacred _clerus_ from the _non-clerus_ or laity, and, by the predominance of anthems and songs in the choir-service, to image forth the conception of the blest society in heaven, where there is only praise; but the 'Collegium' which he constituted has, through historical causes, given way to the wider society of the
Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys Herbert Story
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