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Book of Common Prayer

n.
The book of services and prayers used in the Anglican Church.
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Book of Common Prayer

n
(Anglicanism) the official book of church services of the Church of England, until 1980, when the Alternative Service Book was sanctioned
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Book′ of Com′mon Prayer′


n.
the service book of the Anglican communion.
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Noun1.Book of Common Prayer - 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
Psalter, Book of Psalms - a collection of Psalms for liturgical use
Litany - a prayer consisting of a series of invocations by the priest with responses from the congregation
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Vandenhuten received her, and seated her beside himself; we drove all together to the Protestant chapel, went through a certain service in the Common Prayer Book, and she and I came out married.
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The church had imposed him on the parish as the previous preacher, a Puritan known as Thomas Stanley, had been thrown out for refusing to use the Common Prayer Book, flying in the face of the church's ruling.
VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED; They shut themselves off from world to die..
A New Zealand observer noted that the book `probably marked a major step towards the emergence of a truly national church in Australia'.(87) Bishop Grindrod believed that `the making of a common Prayer Book will do much to enable us to become more deeply and truly an authentic Australian church'.(88)
Re-shaping Australian Anglicanism 1962-1978: from Book of Common Prayer to An Australian Prayer Book

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