aliturgical

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English

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Etymology

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From a- +‎ liturgical.

Adjective

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aliturgical (not comparable)

  1. (of a day in the Christian calendar) On which the holy sacrifice is not offered.
    • 1950, A. Fortescue, The Mass:
      In the Byzantine rite, for instance, all weekdays of Lent except Saturdays and Maundy Thursday are aliturgical

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for aliturgical”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)