(a.) An established formula for public worship, or the entire ritual for public worship in a church which uses prescribed forms; a formulary for public prayer or devotion. In the Roman Catholic Church it includes all forms and services in any language, in any part of the world, for the celebration of Mass.
Example Sentences:
(1) Already the demand for such a liturgy is growing among clergy, who are embarrassed by having to withhold the church's official support from so many of their own flock who are in civil partnerships.
(2) Indeed, the best that many wedding service liturgies can do to insist that Jesus himself supported the institution of marriage is to say that he once turned up at one.
(3) Nobody believes any of this stuff, of course, but it has to be said, rather like a familiar religious liturgy.
(4) Only one has been issued so far this century – by Pope Benedict to give Anglicans a way of joining the Catholic church without having to forgo their liturgy and so on.
(5) They deplore the loss of ancient liturgy and Latin; they are sticklers for the rules, especially on sexual morality, and prize top-down authority over individual conscience.
(6) No other court in the past 50 years has allowed public school officials to lead children in formal religious rituals like the Hindu liturgy of praying to, bowing to, and worshipping the sun god,” attorney Dean Broyles said in a statement.
(7) While stressing that it is not advocating any change to the church's teaching on sexual conduct, it suggests that the house of bishops may wish to consider whether it should issue guidance on liturgy.
(8) Otherwise, there was silence, punctuated only by the comforting murmur of several hundred voices reciting a liturgy they knew by heart.
(9) "Appropriating other people's liturgies," whispered one wry cleric, "does bring certain difficulties."
(10) Yes, just in case you were looking for some spiritually-uplifting sounds to accompany the white smoke, look no further: Spotify have worked with the Notre Dame Center for Liturgy (NDCL) in the United States to come up with 29 pieces of music that they say will "give the listener a disposition of wonder, of contemplation, of prayer".
(11) A priest hurrying through the liturgy, the commentator at Walthamstow dog track?
(12) And I thought: ‘If you’ve not got a PR operation, you’re obviously not planning to open any time soon.’ But their line was always, ‘It’s about to happen.’ There’s a line in the Anglican liturgy: ‘The hope of glory to come.’ It was like that.” As time went on, she says, the mood of the All Saints neighbourhood came to be defined by the empty expanse of land at its heart.
(13) The group does not propose any specially authorised liturgy for the blessing of same-sex relationships and says the move would not require any change to church teachings.
(14) "The thing that makes evangelical churches popular is the informality, the lack of structure of the service, the fact that they don't use traditional liturgy, and they've got good music that young people love and they engage with.
(15) Speaking at a press conference following the report's publication, Sir Joseph said one consequence of the lack of authorised liturgy was the "room for manoeuvre" when it came to the kind of ceremony priests might be able to offer same-sex couples.
(16) We think of religion as the bible, morality, sacred tradition, doctrine, ritual, liturgy.
(17) The proposals in the church's theological commission report on ordaining gay ministers for a gay marriage liturgy was one of his "worst nightmares", Randall said.
(18) This, and the primacy of the word of God in monastic liturgy, made Hume naturally ecumenically-minded.
(19) At that time, the morning services replicated the experience of the grander sort of public-school chapel, with a robed choir, a liturgy from 1662 and a well-bred congregation lined up on pews.
(20) "It is a consecrated space where important liturgies are celebrated and where popes are elected.
Prescribe
Definition:
(v. t.) To lay down authoritatively as a guide, direction, or rule of action; to impose as a peremptory order; to dictate; to appoint; to direct.
(v. t.) To direct, as a remedy to be used by a patient; as, the doctor prescribed quinine.
(v. i.) To give directions; to dictate.
(v. i.) To influence by long use
(v. i.) To write or to give medical directions; to indicate remedies; as, to prescribe for a patient in a fever.
(v. i.) To claim by prescription; to claim a title to a thing on the ground of immemorial use and enjoyment, that is, by a custom having the force of law.
Example Sentences:
(1) Among them, the coumarins, rutins, Centella asiatica extracts, procyanoside oligomers are the most prescribed.
(2) However, a recrudescence in both psychotic and depressive symptoms developed as plasma desipramine levels rose 4 times higher than anticipated from the oral doses prescribed.
(3) Regulators concerned about physician behavior and confronted by demands of nonphysicians to prescribe controlled substances may find EDT a good solution.
(4) Patients were also rated with regard to their pulmonary function and clinical status, including medication prescribed.
(5) Whenever you are ill and a medicine is prescribed for you and you take the medicine until balance is achieved in you and then you put that medicine down.” Farrakhan does not dismiss the doctrine of the past, but believes it is no longer appropriate for the present.
(6) The Hindu belief system accommodates this by prescribing use in such a way that this effect becomes beneficial.
(7) Auranofin (AF), D-penicillamine (D-pen) and thiola are prescribed as disease-modifying drugs in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA).
(8) The rationale for the use of exercise as part of the treatment program in type II diabetes is much clearer and regular exercise may be prescribed as an adjunct to caloric restriction for weight reduction and as a means of improving insulin sensitivity in the obese, insulin-resistant individual.
(9) An analysis of drug prescribing over six months in a random sample of 146 elderly patients showed that 42% were receiving one or more medicines long term.
(10) Although there is no direct evidence that favorable lipoprotein changes produced by OCs are cardioprotective, the physician prescribing an OC should minimize adverse lipoprotein effects by prescribing a balanced low-dose, low-impact formulation.
(11) These 2 information sources were compared to obtain agreement rates between prescriber- and patient-reported OC histories.
(12) To prevent possible relapses, an oral maintenance regimen of amoxicillin and clavulanic acid was prescribed for a period of three months.
(13) In contrast, none of 16 women who had reached menopause and only two of 21 men required oral absorption of dietary or prescribed iron for the amount of blood iron donated.
(14) A variety of commonly prescribed drugs can produce a positive direct antiglobulin test, but the incidence of actual drug-induced hemolytic anemia is low.
(15) The level of prescribing of opioid painkillers – Percocet in Geni’s case – has soared, and with it the incidence of addiction, and addiction’s grim best friend: fatal overdoses.
(16) If you must take a suitcase, don't exceed the prescribed dimensions or weight limits.
(17) In addition, eight patient questionnaires were used to assess prescribing habits regarding benzodiazepines.
(18) Primary care physicians frequently prescribe antidepressant medications to their patients.
(19) The prescribing of antidepressants by general practitioners might be expected to reflect the incidence of depression in the community.
(20) For a long time the results were disappointing, and in a randomized study none of the therapeutic regimens prescribed could improve the patients' survival.