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Old Church Slavonic
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Old Church Slavonic
–noun
the oldest attested Slavic language, an ecclesiastical language written first by Cyril and Methodius in a Bible translation of the 9th century and continued in use for about two centuries. It represents the South Slavic, Bulgarian dialect of 9th-century Salonika with considerable addition of other South and West Slavic elements. Abbreviation: OCS
Also called Old Church Slavic, Old Slavic, Old Slavonic.
Compare Church Slavic.


[Origin: 1875–80]
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Old Church Slavonic  
n.   The medieval Slavic language used in the translation of the Bible by Cyril and Methodius and in early literary manuscripts and still used as a liturgical language by several churches of Eastern Orthodoxy. Also called Church Slavonic, Old Bulgarian.

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old church slavonic

noun
the Slavic language into which the Bible was translated in the 9th century 

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