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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
breviary /ˈbriːvɪəri/

▶noun (pl. breviaries) a book containing the service for each day, to be recited by those in orders in the Roman Catholic Church.

– origin ME: from L. breviarium ‘summary, abridgement’, from breviare ‘abridge’.

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