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  • adjective Not liturgical.

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non- +‎ liturgical

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Examples

  • As Mr. Hampson says, "It is nonliturgical, intended not for the dead but for us, the living."

    Parsing Mahler's Poetic Songs Barrymore Laurence Scherer 2011

  • For Baptists and other nonliturgical Protestants, the sermon itself is a verbal sacrament in which Christ is made present through the medium of language, rather than in blessed bread and wine.

    Heard Any Good Sermons Lately? 2008

  • Dante's Divina Commedia, that great compendium of such traditions, contains a sys - tematic array of many such liturgical and nonliturgical motifs.

    MUSIC AS A DIVINE ART REINHOLD HAMMERSTEIN 1968

  • And as for hats, he has sported a red saturno, a sort of papal cowboy hat, and an ermine-trimmed camauro, a crimson cap that resembles a Santa hat and is worn on nonliturgical occasions.

    The Seattle Times 2011

  • Departing from the traditional Latin Catholic mass, he selected texts from Luther's translation of the Bible, producing a nonliturgical requiem: instead of a prayer for souls facing the Last Judgment, this is a meditation on death meant to console the living.

    Chicago Reader 2010

  • Departing from the traditional Latin Catholic mass, he selected texts from Luther's translation of the Bible, producing a nonliturgical requiem: instead of a prayer for souls facing the Last Judgment, this is a meditation on death meant to console the living.

    Chicago Reader 2010

  • Departing from the traditional Latin Catholic mass, he selected texts from Luther's translation of the Bible, producing a nonliturgical requiem: instead of a prayer for souls facing the Last Judgment, this is a meditation on death meant to console the living.

    Chicago Reader 2010

  • Even in nonliturgical churches, alleluia retains a kind of liturgical significance.

    unknown title 2009

  • Even in nonliturgical churches, alleluia retains a kind of liturgical significance.

    unknown title 2009

  • The court refused to hear an appeal from nonliturgical Protestant chaplains who say they were discriminated against by the Navy.

    The Washington Times stories: Latest Headlines 2009

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