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Definition of Book of common prayer
1. 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.
Definition of Book of common prayer
1. Proper noun. The book containing the liturgy of the Church of England; compiled by Thomas Cranmer in 1549 following the Act of Uniformity. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Book Of Common Prayer
Literary usage of Book of common prayer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Book Prices Current (1921)
"Book of Common Prayer, with The Psalms. Portraits and engravings and ... Book of
Common Prayer proposed to the Use of the Protestant Episcopal Church. ..."
2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1910)
"1905; JH Blunt, Annotated Book of Common Prayer, pp. 32, 460, 657 sqq., New York,
1908. ORDINARY: In canon law this expression denotes the bishop of the ..."
3. The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature: Containing an Account of by William Thomas Lowndes (1864)
"The Catechism and Articles, ' Book of Common Prayer,with ... "The Book of Common
Prayer adapted The Pictorial Book of Common Prayer. ..."
4. The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature: Containing an Account of by William Thomas Lowndes, Henry George Bohn (1890)
"The Book of Common Prayer arranged by the Кет, J. Bosworth. Load. ... New Calendar,
and many occasional forms. Book of Common Prayer,wlth ..."
5. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"That demand was refused; and it was not until September, 1548, that the final
stage in the evolution of the First Book of Common Prayer was commenced. ..."
6. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1860)
"revisers of the Book of Common Prayer, in some late, having married Mr. Edward
... Book of Common Prayer ..."
7. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1878)
"JH Blunt, the well-known Church of England writer and author of " The Annotated
Book of Common Prayer," of which the first of the three volumes is ready. ..."
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