| Domain | Definition | ||
| Literature | Bidding-Prayer The prayer for the souls of benefactors said before the sermon; a relic of this remains in the prayer used in cathedrals, university churches, etc. Bidding is from bead or bede. (Anglo-Saxon, biddan, to pray for the souls of benefactors.) (See Beadsman.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | ||
| Wikipedic | A Bidding-prayer (0. Eng. biddan, "to pray", cf. Ger. beten) is the formula of prayer or exhortation to prayer said in England in the Anglican church before the sermon in cathedrals, at university sermons, in the Inns of Court and elsewhere on special occasions. Such formulae are found in the ancient Greek liturgies, e.g. that of St. Chrysostom, in the Gallican liturgy, and in the pre-Reformation liturgies of England. (references) | ||
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