noun
definition
Praise or glorification.
definition
Hymn of praise.
definition
(in the plural, also Lauds) A prayer service following matins.
verb
definition
To praise, to glorify
Examples of lauds in a Sentence
Lauds is proper to sunrise, but is mostly grouped with matins.
It has already been indicated, by reference to Matins, Lauds, &c., that not only each day, but each part of the day, has its own office, the day being divided into liturgical "hours."
On high festivals the altar is censed at vespers and lauds.
Hymns and lauds rang in the streets that had so recently echoed with Lorenzo's dissolute songs.
It was with the aid of these youthful enthusiasts that Savonarola arranged the religious carnival of 1496, when the citizens gave their costliest possessions in alms to the poor, and tonsured monks, crowned with flowers, sang lauds and performed wild dances for the glory of God.
Beyond this we often find the calefactorium or day-room - an apartment warmed by flues beneath the pavement, where the brethren, half frozen during the night offices, betook themselves after the conclusion of lauds, to gain a little warmth, grease their sandals and get themselves ready for the work of the day.
The omissions are said at Lauds, Prime and Compline.
Matins and Lauds (about 7.30 A.M.); Prime, Terce (High Mass), Sext, and None (about 10 A.M.); Vespers and Compline (4 P.M.); and from four to eight hours (depending on the amount of music and the number of high masses) are thus spent in choir.