[f. LITURGY + -IST. Cf. F. liturgiste (1752, Dict. de Trévoux).]
1. One who uses or advocates the use of a liturgy.
1649. Milton, Eikon., i. Wks. 1851, III. 344. Manuals, and Handmaids of Devotion, the lip-work of every Prelatical Liturgist, clapt together, and quilted out of Scripture phrases.
16[?]. Harl. MS. 6612, lf. 2. The Catholick Lyturgist to his rightly religious frend.
1820. J. Holme, Vulpina, 205.
| Keep, keep your distance, caitiff wretches, do, | |
| Vile liturgists!—What, More be known of you! |
2. A student of or authority on liturgies; a compiler of a liturgy or liturgies.
1657. Sparrow, Bk. Com. Prayer (1664), 218. It comes down to us from ancient times, as appears by S. Hieromes Lectionarius … and other old Liturgists and Expositors.
1712. Sir G. Wheler, Liturgy after the Anc., 202 (MS.). Our Apostolic and Primitive Liturgists.
1849. Rock, Ch. of Fathers, I. 450. Dionigi, the liturgist.
1894. Tablet, 24 March, 443. In … the works of mediaeval liturgists … Holy Week is called Hebdomada Authentica.
3. One who celebrates divine worship; a minister.
1848. R. I. Wilberforce, Doctr. Incarnation, xii. (1852), 327. The Minister ought not to be considered as merely a preacher, but also as a real Liturgist, i. e. as the organ through which the devotion of the congregation is conveyed.
1890. in Century Dict.
Hence Liturgistical a., of or pertaining to a liturgist.
1889. Chr. Wordsworth, in Guardian, 13 Nov., 1767/1. A Bishop … has an inherent liturgistical character by our ancient custom.
