canonical hours

Canonical Hours — • Essay on the practice of reciting the Divine Office according to set hours Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Canonical Hours     Canonical Hours      …   Catholic encyclopedia

Canonical hours — Benedictine monks singing Vespers on Holy Saturday. Canonical hours are divisions of time which serve as increments between the prescribed prayers of the daily round. A Book of Hours contains such a set of prayers. In western Catholicism,… …   Wikipedia

Canonical hours — canonic ca*non ic (k[.a]*n[o^]n [i^]k), canonical ca*non ic*al (k[.a]*n[o^]n [i^]*kal), a. [L. canonicus, LL. canonicalis, fr. L. canon: cf. F. canonique. See {canon}.] Of or pertaining to a canon; established by, or according to, a canon or… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

Canonical hours — Hour Hour, n. [OE. hour, our, hore, ure, OF. hore, ore, ure, F. heure, L. hora, fr. Gr. ?, orig., a definite space of time, fixed by natural laws; hence, a season, the time of the day, an hour. See {Year}, and cf. {Horologe}, {Horoscope}.] 1. The …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

Canonical hours — A canonical hour is a fixed part of the office which the Church appointed to be recited at a particular time; all the prayers fixed for a certain day took the name of canonical . This term was then extended to apply to the book containing these… …   Dictionary of Medieval Terms and Phrases

canonical hours — ▪ music       in music, settings of the public prayer service (divine office) of the Roman Catholic Church (Roman Catholicism), divided into Matins, Lauds, Prime, Terce, Sext, None, Vespers, and Compline. The early monastic communities composed a …   Universalium

canonical hours — noun a) The times of day at which canon law prescribes certain prayers to be said; matins with lauds, prime, tierce, sext, nones, vespers, and complin b) …   Wiktionary

canonical hours — (церковное) уставные часы молитв (церковное) часы для церковных венчаний …   Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь

canonical hours — [kə nɒnɪk(ə)l aʊəz] 1) Общая лексика: уставные часы молитв, часы для церковных венчаний 2) Религия: краткие богослужения, литургия часов, уставные часы, (A time of day canonically appointed for an office of devotion.) уставные часы молитв, (One… …   Универсальный англо-русский словарь

canonical hours — часы молитв и служб, установленные церковными канонами; сами такие молитвы и службы часы для церковных венчаний …   Англо-русский большой универсальный переводческий словарь