a. and sb. [ad. late L. lītūrgic-us, a. Gr. λειτουργικ-ός, f. λειτουργ-ός: see LITURGY.] A. adj. = LITURGICAL.
1656. Blount, Glossogr., Liturgick, pertaining to such a Liturgy; ministerial.
a. 1763. Byrom, Expost. with Sectarist, 11, Misc. Poems 1773, II. 280. At all liturgic Pray’r and Praise it storms, As Man’s Inventions.
1781. Warton, Hist. Eng. Poetry, III. xxvii. 166. The Te Deum, Benedictus,… and the rest of the liturgic hymns.
1880. T. C. Murray, Orig. & Growth Ps., ix. 282. We saw that it [Ps. cviii.] was a purely liturgic cento.
b. Gr. Antiq. (Cf. LITURGY 3.)
1849. Grote, Greece, II. lxi. (1862), V. 318. The Athenians abridged the costly splendour of their choric and liturgic ceremonies at home.
B. sb. pl. † 1. ? Liturgical books. Obs.
a. 1677. Barrow, Pope’s Suprem. (1680), 81. The like may be said for Saint James, if he (as the Roman church doth in its Liturgicks suppose) were an Apostle.
2. a. The study of liturgies, their form, origin, etc. b. That part of pastoral theology which deals with the conduct of public worship.
1855. Ogilvie, Suppl., Liturgics, the doctrine or theory of liturgies.
1860. Worcester (citing Eclectic Rev.).
1882. W. Blaikie, Ministry of Word, 296. Ample treatises on Homiletics, Liturgics, etc.
1882–3. Schaff, Encycl. Relig. Knowl., 2127. His principal writings relate to liturgics.
