HEBDOMADARY Definition & Meaning

hebdomadary

[ heb-dom-uh-der-ee ]

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noun

plural hebdomadaries.

Roman Catholic Church. a member of a church or monastery appointed for one week to sing the chapter Mass and lead in the recitation of the breviary.

adjective

hebdomadal ( def 1 ).

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of hebdomadary¹

1400–50; late Middle English ebdomadarie < Late Latin ��ǳ��ܲ�. See hebdomad, -ary

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When I am alone I am a chimney with no hebdomadary repose; I smoke forever.

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Also on days when there is a principal or processional feast, each one of them, including the hebdomadary, is to have five eggs.

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Also if there is any cloistered person who has begun his week of being hebdomadary, and falls into such sickness that he cannot celebrate the same, the cantor is to say or celebrate three masses.

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