divine office

1. 1.

   canonical prayers recited daily by priests (e.g. the breviary of the Roman Catholic Church)

   Broaderoffice

   Roman Catholic · church service

Questions about divine office

What does divine office mean?

divine office means "canonical prayers recited daily by priests (e.g. the breviary of the Roman Catholic Church)".

Is divine office a common word?

divine office is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.