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Divine Office

noun

Canonical prayers recited daily by priests (e.g. the breviary of the Roman Catholic Church).

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... family, he would have become a clergyman. It was not want of religious sentiment that precluded his feeling sincerely called to this Divine office, but the unutterable profoundness of his reverence. With all his laughter he ever had the pure spirit of the pastor. For the faithful fulfilment of the ministry, in that marvellous picture of a parson's life given in The ...

— Oliver Goldsmith • E. S. Lang Buckland

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