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The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition | Date: 2008
litany [Gr.,=prayer], solemn prayer characterized by varying petitions with set responses. The term is mainly used for Christian forms. Litanies were developed in Christendom for use in processions. In the West there were traditionally four days for these processional litanies, the Rogation Days . The Eastern liturgies make frequent use of litanies, recited by the deacon; the response is usually "Lord, have mercy." The Kyrie eleison is a relic of such a litany. In the Roman Catholic Church the one liturgical litany, the Litany of the Saints, dates from the 5th cent. substantially. Modeled after it are a number of nonliturgical (i.e., nonprescribed) litanies, of which the following are authorized: Litany of the Holy Name of Jesus (15th cent.), Litany of the Blessed Virgin Mary (or of Loreto; 16th cent.), Litany of the Sacred Heart, and Litany of St. Joseph. The litany in the Anglican Book of Common Prayer is much like the Litany of the Saints. Moravian and Lutheran liturgies also use litanies.
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litany
The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English
litany • noun 1. church litany synonyms : prayer, invocation, petition, supplication, devotion; lit. orison. 2. a litany of complaints synonyms : recital, recitation, catalog, list, listing, enumeration.
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prayer
The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English
prayer • noun 1. say a prayer to God | evening prayers synonyms : devotion, communion, litany, invocation, intercession. 2. prayers for mercy synonyms : appeal, plea, beseeching, entreaty, petition, solicitation, supplication, suit, invocation, adjuration.
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Rogation Days
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
... of Roman pagan ones; in rural districts they are regarded as blessing the fields. The prayers include the Litany of the Saints (see litany ). Such liturgical usages are no longer prescribed in the universal Roman Catholic liturgical calendar; observance ...
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Richard Carlile
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
... nine years in prison. He republished suppressed works by Thomas Paine, William Hone, and others, brought out his own Political Litany (1817), and while he was imprisoned kept his weekly, the Republican, going (1819-26) with the help of his wife and sister. Bibliography ...
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farce
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
... comedies of Aristophanes, Plautus, and Terence. During the Middle Ages the term farce designated interpolations made in the church litany by the clergy. Later it came to mean comic scenes inserted into church plays. The farce emerged as a separate genre in 15th ...
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