Liturgic

As Huizinga observed, even his meals "were ceremonies of a dignity that was almost liturgic." ❋ Edward A. Tabri (1990)

The reformers in both countries were chiefly concerned in simplifying religious worship, and in giving to the laity a more active participation in it; the choir and anthem, the old liturgic hymn and antiphonal chant gave way to a great extent to hymns in the vernacular, set to the simplest music and sung by the whole congregation. ❋ Unknown (1976)

But they made Italy, and later the other Latin provinces, familiar with an ancient ritual of incomparable charm that aroused widely different feelings with its splendid processions and liturgic dramas. ❋ Franz Cumont (N/A)

First of all, the liturgic language was no longer the native idiom but ❋ Franz Cumont (N/A)

To this exclusive predominance of Latin is due the fact that it remained the only liturgic language of the Occidental church, which here as in many other cases perpetuated a preexisting condition and maintained a unity previously established. ❋ Franz Cumont (N/A)

The like ceremonies and benedictions are found in the apostolic constitutions, and all other ancient liturgic writings; out of which Grabe, Hickes, Deacon, and others have formed new liturgies very like the present Roman, and several of them have restored the idea of a true sacrifice. ❋ Alban Butler (N/A)

A great number of monuments have preserved for our inspection the pictures of divinities and representations of liturgic scenes, while numerous inscriptions and papyri enlighten us in regard to the sacerdotal organization of the principal temples. ❋ Franz Cumont (N/A)

By studying the arrangement of the temples and the religious furniture that adorned them, one can at the same time determine part of the liturgic ceremonies which took place there. ❋ Franz Cumont (N/A)

One of the few liturgic formulas antiquity has left us refers to these Phrygian banquets. ❋ Franz Cumont (N/A)

All that was necessary to have him open the fields of Aalu to the soul was to pronounce the liturgic formulas, and if the soul declared its innocence in the prescribed terms its word was readily accepted. ❋ Franz Cumont (N/A)

The initiates believed, again like the Jews, that after death their good angel (_angelus bonus_) would lead them to the banquet of the eternally happy, and the everlasting joys of these banquets were anticipated on earth by the liturgic repasts. ❋ Franz Cumont (N/A)

But while the ceremonial of the initiations and even the production of the liturgic drama were thus adapted to the religious habits of the Greeks, the doctrinal contents of the Alexandrian mysteries remained purely Egyptian. ❋ Franz Cumont (N/A)

But all these discoveries amount to very little if we think of the enormous number of liturgic texts that have been lost, and even in the case of ancient Greece we know little regarding this sacred literature. ❋ Franz Cumont (N/A)

Their monotheistic views and liturgic practices were the foundation of the medieval ❋ Various (N/A)

Perhaps no loss caused by the general wreck of ancient literature has been more disastrous than that of the liturgic books of paganism. ❋ Franz Cumont (N/A)

Christian influence, but _omnipotentes_ was used as a liturgic epithet in ❋ Franz Cumont (N/A)

On liturgic feasts in the religion of Cybele: _infra_, ch. ❋ Franz Cumont (N/A)

Christian orthodoxy without exposing it to serious peril, and while they were no longer marked in the liturgic calendars they were still mentioned occasionally in the collections of folk-lore. ❋ Franz Cumont (N/A)

“For it is as profitable for them to know,” he says, “how to sing a liturgic monody properly, or to be able to play a Corelli sonata in a suitable style, as it is for composers to study the structure of a motet or a suite.” ❋ Rolland, Romain, 1866-1944 (1915)

The ecclesiastical ostraka, in a narrow sense, contain Biblical citations from the New Testament, prayers, extracts from the synaxaria (lives of the saints), and are partly of a liturgic character. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)