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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of the forms of Old Church Slavonic that are used as liturgical languages in Slavic-speaking Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Catholic churches and that are influenced in pronunciation and grammar by the local Slavic language spoken by the church communities.
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- proper noun A
liturgical language of various Slavic church traditions, with dialectal basis ofOld Church Slavonic mixed withvernacular lexical andphonological developments.
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Examples
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It came as no surprise to see more than a thousand Russian Orthodox radicals marching in columns around the parliament building, holding icons and wooden crosses and singing Church Slavonic hymns.
Damian Kolodiy: Circus at the Ukrainian Parliament 9/7/2010 2010
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It came as no surprise to see more than a thousand Russian Orthodox radicals marching in columns around the parliament building, holding icons and wooden crosses and singing Church Slavonic hymns.
Damian Kolodiy: Circus at the Ukrainian Parliament 9/7/2010 2010
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It came as no surprise to see more than a thousand Russian Orthodox radicals marching in columns around the parliament building, holding icons and wooden crosses and singing Church Slavonic hymns.
Damian Kolodiy: Circus at the Ukrainian Parliament 9/7/2010 Damian Kolodiy 2010
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The other book turned out to be a grammar of the Church Slavonic dialect, with the first pages torn out, and beginning with the words, “Drug, drugi, druzhe.”
Through Russia 2003
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The literary language began in the western dialect under the twofold influence of Servian literature and the Church Slavonic.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various
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Slavs have held this theory from the earliest period up to the present time with the evident intention to base on it their claims to the Church Slavonic in the Liturgy.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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The Ruthenian, however, in the form of its words, is much nearer the Church Slavonic than the modern
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913
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The Bulgarian tongue is in many respects the nearest to the Church Slavonic, and it was the ancient Bulgarian which Sts. Cyril and Methodius are said to have learned in order to evangelize the pagan Slavs.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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The other book turned out to be a grammar of the Church Slavonic dialect, with the first pages torn out, and beginning with the words,
Through Russia Maksim Gorky 1902
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In the present age Church Slavonic, the ecclesiastical language of the orthodox Slavs, is only just intelligible to the peasantry of Russia and the neighbouring Slav countries.
Chosen Peoples Being the First "Arthur Davis Memorial Lecture" delivered before the Jewish Historical Society at University College on Easter-Passover Sunday, 1918/5678 Israel Zangwill 1895
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