() Pertaining to, of or the nature of, a liturgy; of or pertaining to public prayer and worship.
Example Sentences:
(1) The CofE has refused to countenance any form of official liturgical recognition for civil partnerships; has sought special exemptions from human rights and equalities legislation in order to continue discriminating against openly gay clergy or gay employees; has repeatedly restated its condemnation of all sexual relations outside heterosexual marriage; and has formally debarred even celibate gay clergy from becoming bishops.
(2) Shielded from Europe, Copts developed distinctive customs such as fasting, monasticism and the usage of liturgical Coptic, derived from the Pharaonic language of ancient Egypt.
(3) So she is teaching them not just a new song but a repeatable liturgical practice, as we shall see.
(4) He greeted people warmly - not in a liturgical manner - and asked the people to bless him before he gave a blessing.
(5) The work of liturgical reform has been a service to the people as a re-reading of the Gospel from a concrete historical situation.
(6) · We will develop and distribute liturgical materials on Care for Creation for use in parishes and other places of worship.
(7) All of those composers wrote liturgical music – Francis especially likes Bach's Saint Matthew Passion and Mozart's Mass in C Minor – but the pope also admires a thornier composer: Richard Wagner, the megalomaniacal German genius whose views on Christianity were, to put it mildly, idiosyncratic.
(8) There is a liturgical quality to May’s Brexit creed.
(9) The holy father’s favourite liturgical music – or even his own newly released single – can play through the car’s six speakers via Bluetooth.
(10) To make it go away and relax, I closed my eyes and made every thought disappear – even the thought of refusing to accept the position, as the liturgical procedure allows.
Surplice
Definition:
(n.) A white garment worn over another dress by the clergy of the Roman Catholic, Episcopal, and certain other churches, in some of their ministrations.