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An adherent to, and supporter of, Gallicanism. Shipley.

One of the writers of the hagiographa; a writer of lives of the saints. Shipley.

Holy doom; the Last Day. [R.] Shipley.

triarchs, metropolitans, archbishops, bishops, and, in an inferior degree, by priests. Shipley.

One of those (as in the 16th century) who denied the visibility of the church. Shipley.

A litany beginning with the words. "Kyrie eleison." Shipley.

n, a man who affects the society of ladies. -- Lady altar, an altar in a lady chapel. Shipley. -- Lady chapel, a chapel dedicated to the Virgin Mary. -- Lady court, the court of a lady of the manor. -- Lady crab (Zoöl.), a handsomely spotted swimming crab (Platyonichus ocellatus) very common on the sandy shores of…

e science treating of liturgical matters; a treatise on, or description of, liturgies. Shipley.

A young monk who was excused from performing a portion of a monk's duties. Shipley.

containing the offices in the Greek Church for a month; also, each volume of the same. Shipley.

, the official house in which the canons of a cathedral live in common or in rotation. Shipley.

An indulgence as to food or dress granted to a member of a religious order. Shipley.

An order monishing a party complained against to obey under pain of the law. Shipley.

One who enters a religious house, whether of monks or nuns, as a probationist. Shipley. No poore cloisterer, nor no novys. Chaucer.

One of the three monastic vows. Shipley.

obsecrations of the Litany, being those clauses beginning with "By." Bp. Stillingfeet. Shipley.

Western Christians of the Latin rite. See Orientals. Shipley.

A fast of eight days before a great festival. Shipley.

The officer who officiates or performs an office, as the burial office. Shipley.

eology of the so-called Oxford "Tracts for the Times," issued the period 1833 -- 1841. Shipley. -- Oxford tie, a kind of shoe, laced on the instep, and usually covering the foot nearly to the ankle.