Word Meanings - CHURCHMAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. An ecclesiastic or clergyman. 2. An Episcopalian, or a member of the Established Church of England. "A zealous churchman." Macaulay. 3. One was is attached to, or attends, church.

Related words: (words related to CHURCHMAN)

• CHURCHLINESS
  Regard for the church.
• CHURCHLIKE
  Befitting a church or a churchman; becoming to a clergyman. Shak.
• EPISCOPALIANISM
  The doctrine and usages of Episcopalians; episcopacy.
• ZEALOUS
  1. Filled with, or characterized by, zeal; warmly engaged, or ardent, in behalf of an object. He may be zealous in the salvation of souls. Law. 2. Filled with religious zeal. Shak. -- Zeal"ous*ly, adv. -- Zeal"ous*ness, n.
• ECCLESIASTIC
  A person in holy orders, or consecrated to the service of the church and the ministry of religion; a clergyman; a priest. From a humble ecclesiastic, he was subsequently preferred to the highest dignities of the church. Prescott.
• CHURCH
  AS. circe, cyrice; akin to D. kerk, Icel. kirkja, Sw. kyrka, Dan. kirke, G. kirche, OHG. chirihha; all fr. Gr. ç'd4ra hero, Zend. çura 1. A building set apart for Christian worship. 2. A Jewish or heathen temple. Acts xix. 37. 3. A formally
• CHURCHYARD
  The ground adjoining a church, in which the dead are buried; a cemetery. Like graves in the holy churchyard. Shak. Syn. -- Burial place; burying ground; graveyard; necropolis; cemetery; God's acre.
• CHURCH-BENCH
  A seat in the porch of a church. Shak.
• ECCLESIASTICALLY
  In an ecclesiastical manner; according ecclesiastical rules.
• MEMBER
  A part of an animal capable of performing a distinct office; an organ; a limb. We have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office. Rom. xii. 4. 2. Hence, a part of a whole; an independent constituent of a body; as: A part
• CHURCH MODES
  The modes or scales used in ancient church music. See Gregorian.
• CHURCHSHIP
  State of being a church. South.
• CHURCHMANLY
  Pertaining to, or becoming, a churchman. Milman.
• ESTABLISHMENTARIAN
  One who regards the Church primarily as an establishment formed by the State, and overlooks its intrinsic spiritual character. Shipley.
• CLERGYMAN
  An ordained minister; a man regularly authorized to peach the gospel, and administer its ordinances; in England usually restricted to a minister of the Established Church.
• ESTABLISH
  L. stabilire, fr. stabilis firm, steady, stable. See Stable, a., - 1. To make stable or firm; to fix immovably or firmly; to set (a thing) in a place and make it stable there; to settle; to confirm. So were the churches established in the faith.
• MEMBERSHIP
  1. The state of being a member. 2. The collective body of members, as of a society.
• CHURCHISM
  Strict adherence to the forms or principles of some church organization; sectarianism.
• ESTABLISHED SUIT
  A plain suit in which a player could, except for trumping, take tricks with all his remaining cards.
• ECCLESIASTICUS
  A book of the Apocrypha.
• MISREMEMBER
  To mistake in remembering; not to remember correctly. Sir T. More.
• PREESTABLISH
  To establish beforehand.
• DISESTABLISHMENT
  1. The act or process of unsettling or breaking up that which has been established; specifically, the withdrawal of the support of the state from an established church; as, the disestablishment and disendowment of the Irish Church by
• REMEMBER
  re- + memorare to bring to remembrance, from memor mindful. See 1. To have come into the mind again, as previously perceived, known, or felt; to have a renewed apprehension of; to bring to mind again; to think of again; to recollect;
• NONMEMBERSHIP
  State of not being a member.
• REATTACHMENT
  The act of reattaching; a second attachment.
• HIGH-CHURCHMAN
  One who holds high-church principles.
• REMEMBERABLE
  Capable or worthy of being remembered. -- Re*mem"ber*a*bly, adv. The whole vale of Keswick is so rememberable. Coleridge.
• BROAD CHURCH
  A portion of the Church of England, consisting of persons who claim to hold a position, in respect to doctrine and fellowship, intermediate between the High Church party and the Low Church, or evangelical, party. The term has been applied
• FOREREMEMBERED
  Called to mind previously. Bp. Montagu.