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book of common prayer

公祷书,普通祈祷书,祈祷书

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the service book of the Church of England, essentially adopted but changed in details by other churches of the Anglican communion.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • Yet this, in the end, is a book from which one emerges sad, gloomy, disenchanted, at least if we agree to take it seriously.

  • Submission is less a novel of ideas than a political book, and of the most subversive kind.

  • Her latest book, Heretic: The Case for a Muslim Reformation, will be published in April by HarperCollins.

  • The email appears to have been a relatively common attempt to gain personal information from a wide range of unwitting victims.

  • The vaccine is delivered through a “carrier virus” that causes a common cold in chimpanzees but does not affect humans.

  • The supernaturalist alleges that religion was revealed to man by God, and that the form of this revelation is a sacred book.

  • But Mrs. Dodd, the present vicar's wife, retained the precious prerogative of choosing the book to be read at the monthly Dorcas.

  • A small book, bound in full purple calf, lay half hidden in a nest of fine tissue paper on the dressing-table.

  • She did not need a great cook-book; She knew how much and what it took To make things good and sweet and light.

  • The Smooth Naked Horsetail is a common plant, specially by the sides of streams and pools.