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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 (See also:Lat. See also:laws) , a See also:term meaning praise, now rarely found in this sense except in See also:poetry or See also:hymns. Lauds is the name for the second of the offices of the canonical See also:hours in the See also:Roman See also:breviary, so called from the three laudes or See also:psalms of praise, cxlviii.-cl. which See also:form See also:part of the service (see BREVIARY and HOURS, CANONICAL).

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