breviary

[US]/'briːvɪərɪ/
[UK]/'brivɪɛri/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. まとめ;[カトリック教] 日々の祈りの書
Word Forms
複数形breviaries

Example Sentences

What time was left to him, after these thousand details of business, and his offices and his breviary, he bestowed first on the necessitous, the sick, and the afflicted;

彼に残された時間は、これらの千のビジネスの詳細、彼の職務、そして彼の祈祷書の後に、まず困窮者、病人、そして苦しむ者たちに与えられた。

Real-world Examples

Of the two priests, one was sitting in his underwear reading his breviary and the other was wearing a nightshirt and saying the rosary.

二人の神父のうち、一人は下着姿で祈祷書を読み、もう一人はナイトシャツを着てロザリオを唱えていました。

Source: Selected Short Stories of Hemingway

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