DIRECTORY

 

directory,n.1.  A  book  containing  an  alphabetical  list  of  names,  addresses,  and  telephone

numbers,  esp.  those  of  a  city’s  or  area’s  residents  and  businesses.  [Cases:  Telecommunications

269.  C.J.S.  Telegraphs,  Telephones,  Radio,  and  Television  §  120.]  2.  Any  organization’s

publication containing information on its members or business, such as a legal directory. 3.Eccles.

law. A church’s book of directions for conducting worship. • One of the primary directories is the

Directory for the Public Worship of God, prepared by the Assembly of Divines in England in 1644

to take the  place  of the Book  of Common Prayer, which had been abolished by Parliament (and

was later reinstated). The Directory was ratified by Parliament in 1645 and adopted by the Scottish

Parliament  and  General  Assembly of  the  Church  of  Scotland  that  same  year.  A  directory  in  the

Roman Catholic Church contains instructions for saying the mass and offices each day of the year.

4.  A  small  governing  body; specif.,  the  five-member  executive  body  that  governed  France from

1795 to 1799 during the French Revolution  until it was overthrown by Napoleon and succeeded

by the consulate. [Blacks Law 8th]