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LAUD (Lat. laws)

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 278 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LAUD (
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Lat.
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laws)
  , a
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term meaning praise, now rarely found in this sense except in
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poetry or
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hymns . Lauds is the name for the second of the offices of the canonical hours in the
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Roman breviary, so called from the three laudes or psalms of praise, cxlviii.-cl. which form
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part of the service (see BREVIARY and HOURS, CANONICAL) .

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