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Church
CHURCH, n.
1. A house consecrated to the worship of God, among Christians; the Lords house. This seems to be the original meaning of the word. The Greek, to call out or call together, denotes an assembly or collection. But, Lord, a term applied by the early Christians to Jesus Christ; and the house in which they worshipped was named from the title. So church goods, bona ecclesiastica; the Lords day, dies dominica.
2. The collective body of Christians, or of those who profess to believe in Christ, and acknowledge him to be the Savior of mankind. In this sense, the church is sometimes called the Catholic or Universal Church.
3. A particular number of christens, united under one form of ecclesiastical government, in one creed, and using the same ritual and ceremonies; as the English church; the Gallican church; the Presbyterian church; the Romish church; the Greek church.
4. The followers of Christ in a particular city or province; as the church of Ephesus, or of Antioch.
5. The disciples of Christ assembled for worship in a particular place, as in a private house. Col 4.
6. The worshipers of Jehovah or the true God, before the advent of Christ; as the Jewish church.
7. The body of clergy, or ecclesiastics, in distinction from the laity. Hence, ecclesiastical authority.
8. An assembly of sacred rulers convened in Christs name to execute his laws.
9. The collective body of Christians, who have made a public profession of the Christian religion, and who are untied under the same pastor; in distinction from those who belong to the same parish, or ecclesiastical society, but have made no profession of their faith.
CHURCH, v.t. To perform with any one the office of returning thanks in the church, after any signal deliverance, as from the dangers of childbirth.
church appears in definitions for these words:
Abba Abbot Abelians Abelites Abelonians Abjuration Ablution Acacians Accompany Accursed Acolyte Acroter Adamites Adessenarians Adhere Adherent Adipocere Admittance Admonish Admonition Adopt Adoption Advisory Advocate Advowee Advowson Aerians Afar Agenda Agnomination Agonist Agrippinians Aisle Albegeois Albigenses Alien All-souls-day Alliance Almanack Alogians Altar Altar-cloth Altar-piece Altarage Ambrosian Amyraldism Anathema Angel Angelites Anglic Annats Anniversary Annunciation Annunciator Anomeans Anthem Anthology Antiphonal Apathy Apocrisary Apocrypha Apollinarians Apostate Apostatize Apostatizing Apostle Apostolic Apothesis Appellant Appropriation Apsis Aquarian Archbishop Archchanter Arches-court Archimandrite Archontics Area Arian Arnoldist Artotyrite Ascension-day Ashwednesday Association Assumption Auditory Augustan Autocratrix Avemary Azymite Ban Baptism Baptistery Basilic Bass Bazat Bearing-cloth Beatification Beatify Believer Bell Bell-metal Benediction Benefice Beneficed Beneficiary Bethlemite Bier-balk Bishop Body Borrelists Bosom Breviary Brownism Brownist Building Bull Burial Burying-place By Cabal Calendar Calogeri Calotte Calvinish Candidate Candlemas Canon Canonical Canonry Cardinal Care Carthusian Catechist Cathedral Catholic Ccatholicism Censure Centurist Ceremonial Cerinthians Chair Chancel Chancellor Chant Chantry Chapel Chapelet Chapter Charnel-house Chartulary Chattel Childed Choir Chorister Chrism Christen Christian Christmas Church Church-ale Church-bench Church-burial Church-discipline Church-founder Church-history Church-land Church-member Church-music Church-warden Church-way Church-yard Churchdom Churching Churchlike Churchship Circumcellion City Civil Clergy Clerk Cloister Collate Collation Collegiate Commendable Commendam Commination Common Communion Competently Complaint Completory Conclave Confess Confession Confirmation Confirmed Conform Conformist Confront Congregational Congregationalism Congregationalist Consecrate Consentient Consistory Consociate Consociation Conventicle Corban Corporation Corpulent Council Covenant Cross Cross-bearer Crypt Curate Curateship Damianists Danegelt Deacon Deaconess Dean Deanery Dedicate Demoniacs Desecrate Desk Different Dilapidate Dilapidation Disappropriate Dischurch Disciplinable Disciplinary Discipline Disorganize Dispensation Dissension Dissent Dissenter Dissenting Dissever Dissident Disturbance Diversity Doctor Dogma Donatist Doric Duly Easter Eastern Ecclesiastic Eld Elect Endow Endowment Episcopacy Episcopal Episcopalian Epithalamium Erastian Escurial Establish Evacuate Evangelist Exarch Exauthoration Exclude Excommunicate Excommunicated Excommunicating Excommunication Exorcism Extinguishment Extravagants Eye Fabric Fabrication Fane Father Feast Feretory First-fruit Fold Font Formally Foundation Franchise Front Gallery Gallican General Gladden Glebe Go Godfather Good-friday Gradatory Grail Hama Hassoc Hatchment Havock Heresy Heterodox Heterodoxy Hierarchy High History Hold Holiness Host Hour House Hyperdulia Ile Illuminati Immunity Impanation Impetration Imposition Improper Impropriate Impropriator Incense Incommodious Independent Indulgence Indulgential Indult Initiation Inside Install Interdict Into Intolerance Invitatory Isle Jesse Jog Jubilee Key King Kirk Kirkman Last Lateran Latin Law Lecturer Legend Length Lent Level Levite Litany Livery Locate Luter Maintenance Manual Manuductor Marriage Mass Matins Meeting-house Member Memorial Mendicant Menology Metropolitan Michaelmas Militant Minister Ministry Minster Molest Mystagogue Nave Nef Nicolaitan Non-conformist Non-conformity Non-episcopal Non-episcopalian Note Novatian Novice Nursery Observation Occasion Offertory One Ordain Ordination Osculatory Out Over Pale Pantheon Papist Papistic Papistry Parish Parsonage Particle Parvis Pastor Pastoral Patin Patriarch Patriarchal Patrimony Patristic Patron Patronage Patroness Peculiar Penance Penitent Pentecost Pentecostals Perpetually Pew Plain-song Platform Plow Polity Pope Popery Popish Porch Prayer Prebend Prebendary Prejudice Prelate Prelatist Presbyter Presbyterial Presbytery Present Presentable Priest Primary Primate Prime Primer Primitive Prior Priory Priscillianist Procession Processional Professor Propound Prose Protestant Protopope Proud Provisor Psalm Psalmist Publish Pulpit Puritan Quadragesimals Quarter Quire Reader Readership Real Reason Recitative Reckon Recognition Rectory Recusant Reformed Regard Relinquish Removable Rent Repair Requiem Response Responsory Rest Retraction Revestiary Rite Ritual Roman Romanism Romepenny Romish Roodloft Rota Rule Sabbath Sacrament Sacramentarian Sacramentary Sacrifice Sacrilegiously Sacristan Sacristy Sainfoin Saintly Sanctify Sanctuary Scapulary Schism Schismatical Schismatically Schismatize Scope Scornfully Scrutiny Seat Seating Secede Seceder Sectarian Sectarianism Sectary Secular Secularization Secularize Senior Separatist Serve Service Settle Settling Sexton Shepherd Shortness Sidesman Simoniac Sinecure Sit Slip So Sounding-board Spacious Spirituality Sponsor Spredding Spurious Stanch Stand Star State Station Stave Steeple Steeple-house Stercoranist Stercorarian Stickler Stiffly Still Stool Subdeacon Subdeaconry Subdeaconship Superintendent Supernumerary Surplice Sway Synneurosis Tambor Teacher Tedder Temple Tender Test Thin Threshhold Tie Tithingman Title To Toleration Tonsure Traditor Traduce Transept Transfiguration Tribunal Triumphant Ule Unassociated Unchurch Unchurched Unchurching Unconfirmed Undercroft Underminer Uniform Uniformity Union Unity Usurpation Vain Vase Vatican Venerable Venial Vesper Vestry Viaticum Vicar Vicar-general Vigil Violation Visibility Visible Visit Visitation Voice Vulgate Wake Wane Whitsuntide Womb Worry Worthy
Abba Abbot Abelians Abelites Abelonians Abjuration Ablution Acacians Accompany Accursed Acolyte Acroter Adamites Adessenarians Adhere Adherent Adipocere Admittance Admonish Admonition Adopt Adoption Advisory Advocate Advowee Advowson Aerians Afar Agenda Agnomination Agonist Agrippinians Aisle Albegeois Albigenses Alien All-souls-day Alliance Almanack Alogians Altar Altar-cloth Altar-piece Altarage Ambrosian Amyraldism Anathema Angel Angelites Anglic Annats Anniversary Annunciation Annunciator Anomeans Anthem Anthology Antiphonal Apathy Apocrisary Apocrypha Apollinarians Apostate Apostatize Apostatizing Apostle Apostolic Apothesis Appellant Appropriation Apsis Aquarian Archbishop Archchanter Arches-court Archimandrite Archontics Area Arian Arnoldist Artotyrite Ascension-day Ashwednesday Association Assumption Auditory Augustan Autocratrix Avemary Azymite Ban Baptism Baptistery Basilic Bass Bazat Bearing-cloth Beatification Beatify Believer Bell Bell-metal Benediction Benefice Beneficed Beneficiary Bethlemite Bier-balk Bishop Body Borrelists Bosom Breviary Brownism Brownist Building Bull Burial Burying-place By Cabal Calendar Calogeri Calotte Calvinish Candidate Candlemas Canon Canonical Canonry Cardinal Care Carthusian Catechist Cathedral Catholic Ccatholicism Censure Centurist Ceremonial Cerinthians Chair Chancel Chancellor Chant Chantry Chapel Chapelet Chapter Charnel-house Chartulary Chattel Childed Choir Chorister Chrism Christen Christian Christmas Church Church-ale Church-bench Church-burial Church-discipline Church-founder Church-history Church-land Church-member Church-music Church-warden Church-way Church-yard Churchdom Churching Churchlike Churchship Circumcellion City Civil Clergy Clerk Cloister Collate Collation Collegiate Commendable Commendam Commination Common Communion Competently Complaint Completory Conclave Confess Confession Confirmation Confirmed Conform Conformist Confront Congregational Congregationalism Congregationalist Consecrate Consentient Consistory Consociate Consociation Conventicle Corban Corporation Corpulent Council Covenant Cross Cross-bearer Crypt Curate Curateship Damianists Danegelt Deacon Deaconess Dean Deanery Dedicate Demoniacs Desecrate Desk Different Dilapidate Dilapidation Disappropriate Dischurch Disciplinable Disciplinary Discipline Disorganize Dispensation Dissension Dissent Dissenter Dissenting Dissever Dissident Disturbance Diversity Doctor Dogma Donatist Doric Duly Easter Eastern Ecclesiastic Eld Elect Endow Endowment Episcopacy Episcopal Episcopalian Epithalamium Erastian Escurial Establish Evacuate Evangelist Exarch Exauthoration Exclude Excommunicate Excommunicated Excommunicating Excommunication Exorcism Extinguishment Extravagants Eye Fabric Fabrication Fane Father Feast Feretory First-fruit Fold Font Formally Foundation Franchise Front Gallery Gallican General Gladden Glebe Go Godfather Good-friday Gradatory Grail Hama Hassoc Hatchment Havock Heresy Heterodox Heterodoxy Hierarchy High History Hold Holiness Host Hour House Hyperdulia Ile Illuminati Immunity Impanation Impetration Imposition Improper Impropriate Impropriator Incense Incommodious Independent Indulgence Indulgential Indult Initiation Inside Install Interdict Into Intolerance Invitatory Isle Jesse Jog Jubilee Key King Kirk Kirkman Last Lateran Latin Law Lecturer Legend Length Lent Level Levite Litany Livery Locate Luter Maintenance Manual Manuductor Marriage Mass Matins Meeting-house Member Memorial Mendicant Menology Metropolitan Michaelmas Militant Minister Ministry Minster Molest Mystagogue Nave Nef Nicolaitan Non-conformist Non-conformity Non-episcopal Non-episcopalian Note Novatian Novice Nursery Observation Occasion Offertory One Ordain Ordination Osculatory Out Over Pale Pantheon Papist Papistic Papistry Parish Parsonage Particle Parvis Pastor Pastoral Patin Patriarch Patriarchal Patrimony Patristic Patron Patronage Patroness Peculiar Penance Penitent Pentecost Pentecostals Perpetually Pew Plain-song Platform Plow Polity Pope Popery Popish Porch Prayer Prebend Prebendary Prejudice Prelate Prelatist Presbyter Presbyterial Presbytery Present Presentable Priest Primary Primate Prime Primer Primitive Prior Priory Priscillianist Procession Processional Professor Propound Prose Protestant Protopope Proud Provisor Psalm Psalmist Publish Pulpit Puritan Quadragesimals Quarter Quire Reader Readership Real Reason Recitative Reckon Recognition Rectory Recusant Reformed Regard Relinquish Removable Rent Repair Requiem Response Responsory Rest Retraction Revestiary Rite Ritual Roman Romanism Romepenny Romish Roodloft Rota Rule Sabbath Sacrament Sacramentarian Sacramentary Sacrifice Sacrilegiously Sacristan Sacristy Sainfoin Saintly Sanctify Sanctuary Scapulary Schism Schismatical Schismatically Schismatize Scope Scornfully Scrutiny Seat Seating Secede Seceder Sectarian Sectarianism Sectary Secular Secularization Secularize Senior Separatist Serve Service Settle Settling Sexton Shepherd Shortness Sidesman Simoniac Sinecure Sit Slip So Sounding-board Spacious Spirituality Sponsor Spredding Spurious Stanch Stand Star State Station Stave Steeple Steeple-house Stercoranist Stercorarian Stickler Stiffly Still Stool Subdeacon Subdeaconry Subdeaconship Superintendent Supernumerary Surplice Sway Synneurosis Tambor Teacher Tedder Temple Tender Test Thin Threshhold Tie Tithingman Title To Toleration Tonsure Traditor Traduce Transept Transfiguration Tribunal Triumphant Ule Unassociated Unchurch Unchurched Unchurching Unconfirmed Undercroft Underminer Uniform Uniformity Union Unity Usurpation Vain Vase Vatican Venerable Venial Vesper Vestry Viaticum Vicar Vicar-general Vigil Violation Visibility Visible Visit Visitation Voice Vulgate Wake Wane Whitsuntide Womb Worry Worthy
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