English Explanatory Dictionary

Extraordinary Form

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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  1. The Tridentine liturgy according to the rubrics in force shortly before the Second Vatican Council.
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  1. Alternative letter-case form of Extraordinary Form.

Word forms

Extraordinary Form the Extraordinary Form

Etymology

Calque of Ecclesiastical Latin forma extraordinaria, coined by Benedict XVI in 2007 in Summorum pontificum, which referred to the Tridentine Mass as the extraordinary form of the Roman Rite.

Synonyms

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