BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Book of Common Prayer mean? 

• BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER (noun)
  The noun BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Instance hypernyms:

service book (a book setting forth the forms of church service)

Meronyms (parts of "Book of Common Prayer"):

Book of Psalms; Psalter (a collection of Psalms for liturgical use)

Litany (a prayer consisting of a series of invocations by the priest with responses from the congregation)