breviary

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[ˈbriːvɪəri], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a book containing the service for each day, to be recited by those in orders in the Roman Catholic Church


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Origin:
late Middle English (also denoting an abridged version of the Psalms): from Latin breviarium ‘summary, abridgement’, from breviare ‘abridge’, from brevis ‘short, brief’




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