Church Slavic
noun
a liturgical language used in Eastern Orthodox churches in Slavic countries since the 11th or 12th century, representing a development of Old Church Slavonic through contact with the national Slavic languages.
Origin of Church Slavic
First recorded in 1840–50
Example sentences from the Web for church slavic
He laid the foundation for a scientific grammar of the Slavic languages, centering it on its most ancient type, the Church-Slavic.
Bohemia under Hapsburg Misrule |VariousThese needs are: the knowledge of Russian and Church-Slavic reading, and calculation.
Church-Slavic and Russian and arithmetic to their highest possible stages, and nothing else but that.