Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In the Gr. Ch., any one of the twelve volumes, each volume answering to one month, which together contain a methodical digest of all the offices to be read in commemoration of the church saints. A full set of the menaia constitutes the complete Greek breviary.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Eccl.) A work of twelve volumes, each containing the offices in the Greek Church for a month; also, each volume of the same.
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- noun The annual fixed
liturgical cycle of services used in theEastern Orthodox andGreek -Catholic Churches, containing a list of the services and large collection of liturgical texts for an entire month. Twelve volumes are usually offered for the year, as a set known as themenaia .
Etymologies
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From New Latin, from Ancient Greek μηναῖος (mēnaios, "lunar")
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Examples
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That month therefore forms the first menaion; there is then one for each month to August.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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