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divine service
divine service
noun
- a service of the Christian church, esp one at which no sacrament is given
Word History and Origins
Origin of divine service1
Example Sentences
"Beautiful Belles, welcome to my court and the beginnings of your divine service to our world. Without you and the gods, we would be nothing."
An hour ago she had declined to go to Meeting, saying airily that she and her grandfather had seldom attended divine service, except for the Christmas Mass. an uproar she had caused!
We went to football on Saturday and divine service on Sunday, often wearing the same kind of clothes — this was back when we dressed properly for a game.
“Dame Rose Waldegrave says that ... certain nuns do sometimes have with them in the quire in time of mass the boys whom they teach, and these do make a noise in quire during divine service.”
“Oh, dear me, no; but this man walks round p. 255the town just before divine service, and the ringing of his bell warns the people that it is time for them to go to church.”
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