liturgy 
and the Feast of the Annunciation. In the Roman Catho- 
lood Friday. 
letus, Iwtus ; AS. 
a p- -..-.. a ---,.- f ^ , t(ui ' see UKI.\ AU utn tumult law, a member ot 
'a, also tJHTwpTfia, public service, a pub- fte third or(Jer in the nat i n, the first being 
liturgy (lit'er-ji ) ,; pi. Mir,,*, (-jiz . [Former- tfgg^&fiSSSS* 
ly liUmjic; < OF. liturytc, l,,t,<n,<<; V. limj,c:= ^^w^S) . [ML., also 
Sp. Hturgla = Pg. It. Htov, ( < ML. Kter?(a,fe U S ^ ee gjjj In L oW ^ axo 
/.dTovpyia, also /j,tTwp, public service, a pub- fte third order in the natio ulio ^ e 
lie office or duty (see def. 1), any service, esp. .^ , lo6ifo alll i the second the iitgenuus, cor- 
eccles. the service or ministry of priests, pub- di ' to the eorl, the ceorl, and the te< 
lie worship ; in a restricted sense, the euchanst, j, ^ g e ti s h laws 
if, a public servant, a minister, eccles. 
a priest, < Arirof, /tfi'rof , also ^?)<rof, /.^rof , and 
/tdirof, Xairof (rare), public (< >.aof, ?.c(if, people), 
+ *pytw,do,work, )spyov =E. ttwfc; see worA'.] people, he i: 
The litus appears to be distinctly recognized as a mem- 
ber of the nation. . . . Instead of being a mere dependent 
ith no political rights, the remnant of a conquered alien 
eople he is free in relation to every one but his lord, 
,,, . , every one 
1. In ancient Greece, particularly at Athens, and simply unfree as cultivating land of which he is not 
a form of personal service to the state which the *- Ilst " f 
citizens possessing property to a certain am- lltUUS (lit'u-us), .; pUtte (-1). [L. , an augur s 
ount were bound, when called upon, to perform staff, a trumpet: supposed to be of Etruscan 
at their own cost. These liturgies were ordinary, in- origin, meaning 'crooked. ] 1. In ,/to. antiq.-. 
eluding the presentation of dramatic performances, musi- (n) A staff with a recurved or crooked top, used 
cal and poetic contests, etc., the celebration of some festi- by the augurs in quartering the heavens; an 
vals,and other public functions entailing expense upon the aueura i W and. (6) An instrument of martial 
l to!^ert eXtra0rdi ' U " ry ' a8thefltti " goutofa&lreme music; a kind of trumpet curved at the outer 
2. A form or method of conducting public wor- extremity, and having a shrill tone. 2. A spi- 
ship ; an appointed form for the words and acts ra l of which 
used in the rites and ceremonies of the Chris- the character- 
tian church. The word denotes especially an appointed istie property 
form for the holy communion, the hours or daily prayer, is that the 
litanies, baptism, confirmation, marriage, burial, penance, squares of any wo ra vec - 
visitation and unction of the sick or dying, ordinations, and l y proportional to the angles which they respec- 
other offices such as are contained in the Missal, Breviary, Jfjr, F _ n i, Q ,o^t^,, !{<> which ia OTVPH 
Ritual, Pontifical, Euchologion, Horologion, etc., of theRo- tively make with a certain line which is given 
man Catholic and the Greek Church, or united in one vol- in position and which is an asymptote to the 
ume in the Anglican Book of Common Prayer. Liturgies spiral. This name was given by Cotes (died 
seem to have originated partly in the inheritance or adop- i7ifl\ Q r/vm 1 Tn fnn/ (n\ A framis of 
tion of Jewish forms of worship and their adaptation to 171 Y/-i ', LC<y ' -J n y-' ' ,} ' J Tro?, 
Christian purposes. The Book of Psalms, especially as con- cephalopoda : same as Sptrula. Breyn, 1732. 
taining inspired prayers, praises, thanksgivings, etc., fur- (ft) A genus of gastropods : same as Cyclostoma. 
nished a large amount of liturgical material. On the other Martiin. 1784. 
hand, the forms given by Christ, such as the Lord's Prayer, |.,_. ,, A \ii,!,]|,. F.ncrlih fnrm of 7inn 
the words of institution in the eucharist, the baptismal Un {' 1 "' ,~ , 9 nhil < 7i,,<,l 4- 
formula, etc., became centers of development for the new livable (liv'a-bl), a. [Also liveable; < hve\ + 
and distinctively Christian parts of the offices. -able.] 1. Capable of being lived, or of being 
3. Specifically, in Utiirgiology, and as the name spent or passed in more or less content. [Bare.] 
most frequently used in the Greek Church, the Life at the moment was livable without it [human in- 
form of service used in the celebration of the tercoursel for there was no bar between her and her lover, 
eunharist, or that service itself. In this last sense Qeo - **"*>**. what s Mine s Mine p. 338. 
Latin and Roman Catholic writers generally prefer the 2. Capable of being lived in; fit for residence, 
word moss. An account of primitive Christian liturgical [Rare.] 
worship is given by Justin Martyr (in the middle of the Thev w 
second century A. n.\ and this agrees with the Clementine 
Liturgy, a form referable to about A. B. 250, and so called 
because incorporated in the Apostolical Constitutions, a 
compilation attributed to St. Clement of Rome. Five 
great groups or families of liturgies are recognized, each 
ere quite liveable quarters. 
M. Collins, The Ivory Gate, i. 194. 
I doubt if there was ever anywhere a livable house . . . 
that was not the creation of a reflned woman. 
Harper's Mag., LXXVI. 875. 
of which can be referred to a single original liturgy repre- li ve l (Uv), J>. : pret. and pp. lived, ppr. lil'iiui. 
sented by one or two direct derivatives still existing. They r/ MF liven Jivifu lumen iihbfn < AS IHltin 
are: (1) The Liturgy of St. James (or of Jerusalem), also L\ MJi : M J! en ' '"'*"' luuen, ItpDen, <. AS. UJian, 
called the Hierosolymitan Liturgy, the Greek form of which lyfian, leofian, hbban (pret. hfoae) = Ob. liblnan 
has been somewhat modified by that of St. Chrysostom ; it = OFries. leva, liva, libba = D. MLG. LG. leven 
exists also in a Syriac Jacobite form, with numerous deriva- OHG leben MHG G leben = Icel Ufa = 
lives. From its Greek form came the Greek Liturgy of St. ' , ' o' 7 / ' ' ri_+i, ;;),,. >> K 
Sai(of Cappadocia), and from this the Liturgy of St. Chry- D% MM = ?w lefVa = Goth. h6, (pret Z- 
sostom on the one hand and the Armenian Liturgy on the baida), live, in Icel. also remain, be left (cf . 
other. TheliturgiesofStBasilandSt.Chrysostom, together Goth. af-Ufnan, be left); a secondary verb, from 
with the Liturgy of the Presanctifted (see below), are known tlin at<>Tn rif AS "Iffrni Cin pomn bflifnn OS 
as Liturgies of Constantinople, and are almost exclusively V.VT' H .,- ( Tixin 
used at the present day bythe whole Greek Church. (2) blhbhan = OFries. billva = V. bltjven = OHtr. 
The Liturgy of St. Mark (or of Alexandria), the original biliban, MHG. beliben, bliben = Dan. bUre= Sw. 
Catholic or Greek form of which has been influenced by blifra), remain, be left, whence also ult. AS. 
that of Constantinople. It is used also to the present day ,-/ lif ' i;ff nn i pav p Mr" what is Ipft see life 
in a Coptic (Egyptian Monophysite) form named after St. "/> n , te ; (<E / a . leave, laj, wnai IS Ije, 
Cyril. The Copts, however, use as their principal liturgy leave*, lave*.] l.mtrans.l. 1 continue in be- 
one named after St. Basil, different from that of the same ing ; remain or be kept alive ; not to die, perish, 
namein thenrstgroup. The Ethiopian (that is, Abyssinian) or be destroyed : said of both animate and in- 
--**- things, corporeal or incorporeal. 
Apostles. It is a very ancient orthodox liturgy, and is the 
original of the East Syrian group. It is often called Nee- 
torian, because used by Nestorians, and because the an- 
cient Malabar and other Nestorian liturgies are derived 
from it. (4) The Liturgy of St. Peter (or of Home), the earli- 
est extant forms of which are the Gelasian and Gregorian 
Sacramentaries. It is the principal liturgy of the Roman 
or Petrine group, and has almost entirely supplanted all 
the liturgies in the Latin language that is, those in this 
and the next group. Allied but independent forms are the 
Ainbrosian Liturgy, which is that of the archdiocese of 
Milan, still sometimes used, and the liturgies or uses of 
the Anglo-Saxon and medieval English Church, of which 
the most important was the Ute ofSarum. These medi- 
The trespass still doth live, albee the person dye. 
Spenser, F. Q., II. viii. 28. 
Methinks the truth should live from age to age. 
Shale., Rich. III., ill. 1. 76. 
The Skiff was much overloaden, and would scarce haue 
liued in that extreame tempest had she beene empty. 
Quoted in Capt. John Smith's True Travels, I. 217. 
If I live till May come twelvemonth, you are sure of me 
again. Cotton, in Walton's Angler, ii. 273. 
In the upper church also, the columns of the elder 
building have . . . lived through all repairs. 
E. A. Freeman, Venice, p. 62. 
^ 2. To have life; possess organic vitality; be 
in the successive revisions of the Anglican Prayer-book, capable of performing vital functions : said of 
The NonjUrorS' Office Of 1718 and the Scottish Office Of nnimnla nnd nlonta 
1764 were, however, largely conformed to the Liturgy of a 
St James, and from these the American office derives its In that See of Libye is no Fissche: for the! mowe not 
prayer of consecration. (5) The Liturgy of St. Paul (or * ne dure, for the gret hete of the Sonne. 
of St. John), also called the Liturgy of Ephesus, is the in- 
ferred original of the so-called Ephesine Liturgies, these 
names being not historical or traditional, but the gener- 
ally accepted result of scientific combination. These lit- 
urgies are also called Gailica/t or Hispano-Gallfean, and 
are the forms. Latin in language, anciently used in Brit- 
ain, Gaul, and Spain, and traced through the church at 
Lyons to Ephesus. The varieties used in Gaul have been 
supplanted since the time of Charlemagne by the Roman 
form, which has al! ' 
Mandeville, Travels, p. 144. 
What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death ? 
Ps. Ixxxix. 48. 
Take not away the life you cannot give ; 
For all things have an equal right to lice. 
Dryden, Pythag. Philos., 1. 706. 
The bones of some vast bulk that lined and roar'd 
Before man was. Tennyson, Princess, Hi. 
To use or pass life; direct the course of one's 
,irforhe c e course o ones 
Mozarabic. This last, however, as revived at the begin- llte ' regulate one's manner of existing: &s,t,ohve 
ning of the sixteenth century by Cardinal Ximenes, is still well or ill, in either a physical or a moral sense. 
used in three or four chapels or churches, but with some 
assimilation to the Roman rite. Liturgy or Mass of the 
Presanctifled, an office with a communion (the elements 
having been consecrated at a previous celebration), but no 
consecration, and therefore not a liturgy or ^nass in the 
strict sense of these words. Such a service' (containing 
parts of the Liturgy of St. Chrysostom) is said in the Greek 
Church throughout Lent, except on Saturdays, Sundays, 
Ensaumple suthly forto gif 
To tham that in his law wald lif. 
Holy Rood (E. E. T. S.), p. 129. 
To be a Christian was not to fight for the Faith, but to 
live by it. StUKngfleet, Sermons, II. iii. 
Unblemished let me live, or die unknown. 
Pope, Temple of Fame, 1. 523. 
live 
True men who love me still, for whom I live. 
Tennyson, Guinevere. 
Hence, used absolutely 4. To make full use 
of life or its opportunities; get the greatest 
advantage or enjoyment from existence. 
He who, secure within, can say, 
To-morrow, do thy worst, for I have lived to-day. 
Dryden, Imit. of Horace's Odes, III. xxix. 65. 
Lice while you live, the epicure would say, 
And seize the pleasures of the present day ; 
Line while you live, the sacred preacher cries, 
And give to God each moment as it flies. 
Doddridye, Epigram on his Family Anns. 
Of him [Charles XII. of Sweden] we may say that he 
led a life more remote from death, and in fact lined more, 
than any other man. Emerson, Courage. 
5. To abide: have or make an abiding-place; 
dwell or reside; have place: as, to live in a 
town; to lire with one's parents. 
There was one Anna, a prophetess : . . . she was of a 
great age, and had lived with an husband seven years from 
her virginity. Luke ii. 36. 
The tears live in an onion that should water this sorrow. 
Shalt., A. and C., L 2. 176. 
It is certainly a very happy temper to be able to live 
with all kinds of dispositions. Steele, Spectator, No. 386. 
A horror lived about the tarn, and clave 
Like its own mists to all the mountain side. 
Tennyson, Lancelot and Elaine. 
6. To have means of subsistence ; receive or 
procure a maintenance ; get a livelihood: as, to 
. live on one's income. 
They which preach the gospel should live of the gospel. 
1 Cor. ix. 14. 
Via. Dost thou live by thy tabor? 
Clo. No, sir, I live by the church. 
Shale., T. N., iii. 1. 2. 
No ill men, 
That live by violence and strong oppression, 
Come thither. Fletcher, Bonduca, iv. 2. 
7. To feed; subsist; be nourished: with by 
before the means or method, and on or upon 
(sometimes with) before the material : as, cattle 
live on grass and grain ; to live on the fat of the 
land. 
It behovethe M en to here Vitaile with hem that schalle 
duren hem in the Desertes, and other necessaries for to 
lyve by. Mandeville, Travels, p. 68. 
I had rather live 
With cheese and garlic in a windmill, far, 
Than feed on cates and have him talk to me 
In any summer-house in Christendom. 
Shak., 1 Hen. IV., iii. 1. 181. 
Sell their presented partridges and fruits, 
And humbly live on rabbits and on roots. 
Pope, Imit. of Horace, II. ii. 52. 
I speak the truth as I live by bread ! 
Tennyson, Lady Clare. 
8. In Scrip., to have spiritual life, either here 
or hereafter; exist or be sustained spiritually. 
The just shall live by faith. GaL iii. 11. 
Forgive my grief for one removed ; . . . 
I trust he lives in thee, and there 
I find him worthier to be loved. 
Tennyson, In Memoriam, Ink 
Living at heck and manger. SeeA*i. To live and 
lookt, to live : a pleonastic phrase. 
Ac yf ich may lyue and lake ich shal go lerne bettere. 
Piers Plowman (C), xi. 57. 
To live but and ben. see 6ei, . To live by one's 
fingers' ends. See finger. To live by one's hands. 
See hand. To live fast. See fast*. To live In a glass 
house. Seej/tes. To live In clover. See clover. To 
live like flghtlng-COCks. See fighting-cock. To live 
on the cross. See crossi. To live out, to be away from 
home in domestic service. [Colloq. and local, U. S.] 
She came to this city, and lived out as a cook. 
New York Tribune, quoted in Bartlett 
She has never lived out before. 
Mrs. Terhune, The Hidden Path, p. 78. 
To live under, to be tenant to. To live under canvas. 
See canvas. To live up to, to order one's life in accor- 
dance with ; not live below the standard of : as, to live up 
to one's theories. 
Editors of mortals alone live up to the apostolic injunc- 
tion, and, forgetting the things that are behind, ever press 
forward to those which are before. 
Contemporary Rev., \ 1,1 \. 656 
=Syn. 5. Sojourn, Continue, etc. See abided. 
II. trans. 1. To continue in constantly or ha- 
bitually ; pass; spend: as, to live a life of ease. 
Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise . . . 
To scorn delights, and live laborious days. 
MMon, Lycidas, L 72. 
But let me live my life. Tennyum, Audley Court. 
2. To act habitually in conformity to. 
It is not enough to say prayers, unless they live them too. 
Parker. 
To live down, to live so as to disprove ; efface or remove 
by one's subsequent conduct the effects of (a calumny, 
grief, or mistake). 
Leaving her husband to ponder how she and he had each 
lived their sorrow down. Jea/reson, Live it Down, ii. 
Write down that rubbish you can't live it down you 
may. Bulwer, My Novel, i. 7. 
