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Bidding prayer   Listen
noun
Bidding prayer  n.  
1.
(R. C. Ch.) The prayer for the souls of benefactors, said before the sermon.
2.
(Angl. Ch.) The prayer before the sermon, with petitions for various specified classes of persons.





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"Bidding prayer" Quotes from Famous Books



... minor debts such as what of arithmetic, what of astronomy, what of geography, we owe to the Saracen, from Palestine we derive the faith of Europe shared (in the language of the Bidding Prayer) by all Christian people dispersed throughout the world; as to Greece we owe the rudiments of our Western art, philosophy, letters; and not only the rudiments but the continuing inspiration, so that—though entirely superseded in worship, as even in the Athens of Pericles they were ...
— On the Art of Writing - Lectures delivered in the University of Cambridge 1913-1914 • Arthur Quiller-Couch


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