canonical hour

English

Benedictine vespers

Noun

canonical hour (plural canonical hours)

1. The three-hour intervals of daytime religious services appointed by canon law.

   Synonyms: stound, tide

2. (Christianity) The divine office or prayers appointed to each of these times of day.

   Hypernyms: Liturgy of the Hours, little hour

   Hyponyms: matins, lauds, prime, terce / tierce, sext, nones / none, vespers, complin / compline

Translations

three-hour intervals

• French: heure canoniale f
• German: Hore f
• Latin: hōra canonica f, hōra (la) f

prayers

• Hungarian: zsolozsma (hu)
• Latin: officium (la) n
• Old English: tīd f

See also

• book of hours

Further reading

• canonical hours on Wikipedia.Wikipedia