Gr. Church. [ad. eccl. Gr. λυχνικόν time of lamplighting, f. λύχνος lamp.] An office that accompanies the lighting of lamps, being the introductory part of vespers.

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1850.  Neale, East. Ch., Introd. I. 897, note. The Order of Philotheus directs the Priest … to begin the lychnics at the verse ‘In wisdom hast Thou made them all.’

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