- Honorably discharged from the performance of public duty
on account of age, infirmity, or long and faithful services; -- said of
an officer of a college or pastor of a church. - A veteran who has honorably completed his service.
- The act of rending thanks, or expressing gratitude
for favors or mercies. - A public acknowledgment or celebration of divine
goodness; also, a day set apart for religious services, specially to
acknowledge the goodness of God, either in any remarkable deliverance
from calamities or danger, or in the ordinary dispensation of his
bounties.
- Form of religious rites - Order of service - Ritual - An established formula for public worship, or the entire
ritual for public worship in a church which uses prescribed forms; a
formulary for public prayer or devotion. In the Roman Catholic Church
it includes all forms and services in any language, in any part of the
world, for the celebration of Mass.