Diataxeis
Diataxeis
(), a word anciently used for liturgies, or forms of prayer. Gregory Nazianzen calls the liturgy of St. Basil, composed by the direction of his bishop while he was presbyter of Cesarea, , the order of prayers; and those forms and orders of divine worship collected by the author of the Apostolical Constitutions were styled . Bingham, Orig. Eccles. bk. 13, ch. 1; 9.