among Philosophers and Divines, signifies the duties which a man lies under an obligation to perform. Thus we meet with the agenda of a Christian, or the duties he ought to perform; in opposition to the credenda, or things he is to believe.

among Merchants, a term sometimes used for a memorandum-book, in which is set down all the business to be transacted during the day, either at home or abroad.

among Ecclesiastical Writers denotes the service or office of the church. We meet with agenda mutatina et vesperina, the morning and evening prayers; agenda diei, the office of the day, whether feast or fast; agenda mortuorum, called also simply, agenda, the service of the dead.

**AGENDA** is also applied to certain church-books, compiled by public authority, prescribing the order and manner to be observed by the ministers and people in the principal ceremonies and devotions of the church; in which sense agenda amounts to the same with what is otherwise called ritual, liturgy, acolouthia, missal, formulary, directory, &c.