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noun 
  1. A section of text, especially a passage of Scripture to be read in public worship.
The reader looked up the Sunday morning .
The oldest know system of pericopes in the Western Church is ascribed to Jerome.
Etymology: From late Latin Latin, pericope, from Greek ' "section", from peri- + ' "cutting", from "to cut".

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