liturgy

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a rite or body of rites prescribed for public worship

   The congregation followed the familiar liturgy.

From Middle French liturgie, from Latin liturgia, from Ancient Greek λειτουργία (leitourgía), from λειτ- (leit-), from λαός (laós, “people”) + -ουργός (-ourgós), from ἔργον (érgon, “work”) (the public work of the people done on behalf of the people).

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