Definition of "religious service" []

• A ritual performed in as part of a religous observation. (noun)

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• "That evening he dined at the Court of Two Sisters and strolled through the French Quarter and attended a religious service in a storefront church whose congregation was composed mostly of black people."
• "He spent a quiet, meditative Sunday at Nathaniel Harris's home and attended religious service in Hood's brigade."
• "To the principle of Established Churches, as part of the wider principle of extending everywhere the scope of the State, he was always friendly; but he felt the difficulty of maintaining them where, as in Scotland, they had nothing to show except “a religious service which is perhaps the most dismal performance ever invented by man,” and a theology shared by all the non-established bodies round about."