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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



... mentioned one morning that he had just received a Privy Council summons. I asked why the Bidding Prayer held a petition for the Lords and others of Her Majesty's Privy Council: old Regius Professor Jacobson used to tell us that it was a mistake, that all Privy Councillors were "Lords" of the Privy Council. He thought that the word "others" represented the Lord Mayor, who attends ...
— The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Vol. 2 • Stephen Gwynn


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