Definition of church

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Church (n.) Any body of worshipers; as, the Jewish church; the church of Brahm..

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Venerable :: Venerable (a.) Rendered sacred by religious or other associations; that should be regarded with awe and treated with reverence; as, the venerable walls of a temple or a church..
Resolutioner :: Resolutioner (n.) One who makes a resolution; one who joins with others in a declaration or resolution; specifically, one of a party in the Scottish Church in the 17th century..
Cantor :: Cantor (n.) A singer; esp. the leader of a church choir; a precentor.
Low-churchism :: Low-churchism (n.) The principles of the low-church party.
Anglican :: Anglican (n.) In a restricted sense, a member of the High Church party, or of the more advanced ritualistic section, in the Church of England..
Choir :: Choir (n.) That part of a church appropriated to the singers.
Glassite :: Glassite (n.) A member of a Scottish sect, founded in the 18th century by John Glass, a minister of the Established Church of Scotland, who taught that justifying faith is no more than a simple assent to the divine testimone passively recived by the understanding. The English and American adherents of this faith are called Sandemanians, after Robert Sandeman, the son-in-law and disciple of Glass..
Hesychast :: Hesychast (n.) One of a mystical sect of the Greek Church in the fourteenth century; a quietist.
Celebrant :: Celebrant (n.) One who performs a public religious rite; -- applied particularly to an officiating priest in the Roman Catholic Church, as distinguished from his assistants..
Discipline :: Discipline (n.) The enforcement of methods of correction against one guilty of ecclesiastical offenses; reformatory or penal action toward a church member.
Excommunicate :: Excommunicate (a.) Excommunicated; interdicted from the rites of the church.
Sexton :: Sexton (n.) An under officer of a church, whose business is to take care of the church building and the vessels, vestments, etc., belonging to the church, to attend on the officiating clergyman, and to perform other duties pertaining to the church, such as to dig graves, ring the bell, etc..
Euchology :: Euchology (n.) A formulary of prayers; the book of offices in the Greek Church, containing the liturgy, sacraments, and forms of prayers..
Mission :: Mission (n.) An organization for worship and work, dependent on one or more churches..
Propound :: Propound (v. t.) To propose or name as a candidate for admission to communion with a church.
Call :: Call (v. t.) To summon to the discharge of a particular duty; to designate for an office, or employment, especially of a religious character; -- often used of a divine summons; as, to be called to the ministry; sometimes, to invite; as, to call a minister to be the pastor of a church..
Bow-bells :: Bow-bells (n. pl.) The bells of Bow Church in London; cockneydom.
Facade :: Facade (n.) The front of a building; esp., the principal front, having some architectural pretensions. Thus a church is said to have its facade unfinished, though the interior may be in use..
Ceremonial :: Ceremonial (n.) The order for rites and forms in the Roman Catholic church, or the book containing the rules prescribed to be observed on solemn occasions..
Churchless :: Churchless (a.) Without a church.
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