DIVINE SERVICE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does divine service mean? 

• DIVINE SERVICE (noun)
  The noun DIVINE SERVICE has 1 sense:

1. the act of public worship following prescribed rules

  Familiarity information: DIVINE SERVICE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DIVINE SERVICE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of public worship following prescribed rules

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

divine service; religious service; service

Context example:

the Sunday service

Hypernyms ("divine service" is a kind of...):

religious ceremony; religious ritual (a ceremony having religious meaning)

Meronyms (parts of "divine service"):

invocation; supplication (a prayer asking God's help as part of a religious service)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "divine service"):

church; church service (a service conducted in a house of worship)

devotional (a short religious service)

prayer meeting; prayer service (a service at which people sing hymns and pray together)

chapel; chapel service (a service conducted in a place of worship that has its own altar)

committal service (service committing a body to the grave)

none (a service in the Roman Catholic Church formerly read or chanted at 3 PM (the ninth hour counting from sunrise) but now somewhat earlier)

vesper (a late afternoon or evening worship service)

watch night (a devotional service (especially on New Year's Eve))

 Context examples 

As soon as divine service was over, the Thorpes and Allens eagerly joined each other; and after staying long enough in the pump-room to discover that the crowd was insupportable, and that there was not a genteel face to be seen, which everybody discovers every Sunday throughout the season, they hastened away to the Crescent, to breathe the fresh air of better company.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Edmund might, in the common phrase, do the duty of Thornton, that is, he might read prayers and preach, without giving up Mansfield Park: he might ride over every Sunday, to a house nominally inhabited, and go through divine service; he might be the clergyman of Thornton Lacey every seventh day, for three or four hours, if that would content him.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)