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Church Slavonic

From The Columbia Encyclopedia
language belonging to the South Slavic group of the Slavic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Slavic languages ). Although it is still the liturgical language of most branches of the Orthodox Eastern Church, Church Slavonic is extinct today as a spoken tongue. In its earliest period, from the 9th to 11th cent. A.D. , this language is variously termed Old Church Slavonic, Old Church Slavic, or Old Bulgarian. The year 1100 is the conventional dividing line between the ancestor, Old Church Slavonic, and its descendant, the later Church Slavonic, which flourished as the literary language of a number of Slavic peoples before the 18th cent. Old Church Slavonic was created in the 9th cent. by St. Cyril and St. Methodius for their translation of the Gospels and other religious texts. Scholars disagree as to which spoken Slavic dialect was chosen by the two saints as the basis for the language of their translations. In any case, because this dialect was inadequate for their…
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Full text Article Church Slavonic

From The Columbia Encyclopedia
language belonging to the South Slavic group of the Slavic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Slavic languages ). Although it is still the liturgical language of most branches of the Orthodox Eastern Church, Church Slavonic is extinct today as a spoken tongue. In its earliest…
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Full text Article Old Church Slavonic language

From Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
Oldest attested Slavic language , known from a small corpus of 10th- or 11th-century manuscripts, most written in the Glagolitic alphabet ( see Cyrillic alphabet ). The Old Church Slavonic documents, all translations from Christian ecclesiastical texts, resulted from the mission to the Moravian…
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An Orthodox monastic ranking above a novice and below a stavrophore. When novices become rassophores they are tonsured and receive the outer cassock. In the Greek tradition they are given a kalimavkion (brimless hat), which is covered with a veil called an epanokalimavkion. In the Russian tradition…
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From The Macquarie Dictionary
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From Merriam-Webster's Collegiate(R) Dictionary
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From The American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language
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Full text Article Old Church Slavonic

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Full text Article Old Church Slavonic

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A long, full cape, extending to the floor and joined at the neck which Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Catholic monks and nuns wear over the other parts of the habit. It is worn in processions and while attending certain church services, such as Vespers or Matins, but not at the Eucharist. The mantle…
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