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Argia
1910 New Catholic Dictionary
(Greek: inactivity)
In ecclesiastical language, abstention from:
- servile work on Sundays and Holy Days;
- recitation of the canonical hours by monks on certain days;
- some repasts (suppressed by the exceptional severity of certain fasts);
- ecclesiastical functions (in the case of unworthy clerics).
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Entry for 'Argia'. 1910 New Catholic Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ncd/a/argia.html. 1910.