Word Meanings - CONGREGATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The whole body of the Jewish people; -- called also Congregation of the Lord. It is a sin offering for the congregation. Lev. iv. 21. A body of cardinals or other ecclesiastics to whom as intrusted some departament of the church business; as, the

Additional info about word: CONGREGATION

The whole body of the Jewish people; -- called also Congregation of the Lord. It is a sin offering for the congregation. Lev. iv. 21. A body of cardinals or other ecclesiastics to whom as intrusted some departament of the church business; as, the Congregation of the Propaganda, which has charge of the missions of the Roman Catholic Church. A company of religious persons forming a subdivision of a monastic order. 6. The assemblage of Masters and Doctors at Oxford or Cambrige University, mainly for the granting of degrees. (more info) 1. The act of congregating, or bringing together, or of collecting into one aggregate or mass. The means of reduction in the fire is but by the congregation of homogeneal parts. Bacon. 2. A collection or mass of separate things. A foul and pestilent congregation of vapors. Shak. 3. An assembly of persons; a gathering; esp. an assembly of persons met for the worship of God, and for religious instruction; a body of people who habitually so meet. He rode every year to London, and preached there to large and attentive congregations. Macaulay.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CONGREGATION)

• Assembly
• Meeting
• concourse
• assemblage
• multitude
• group
• synod
• conclave
• conference
• convocation
• unison
• company
• congregation
• collection
• crowd
• gathering
• convention
• aggregate
• Company
• Aggregation
• association
• union
• sodality
• order
• fraternity
• guild
• corporation
• society
• community
• assembly
• crew
• posse
• gang
• troop
• audience

Related words: (words related to CONGREGATION)

• MEETER
  One who meets.
• TROOPSHIP
  A vessel built or fitted for the conveyance of troops; a transport.
• CONFERENCE
  A stated meeting of preachers and others, invested with authority to take cognizance of ecclesiastical matters. 6. A voluntary association of Congregational churches of a district; the district in which such churches are. Conference meeting,
• POSSESSIVE
  Of or pertaining to possession; having or indicating possession. Possessive case , the genitive case; the case of nouns and pronouns which expresses ownership, origin, or some possessive relation of one thing to another; as, Homer's admirers; the
• CONVENTIONALLY
  In a conventional manner.
• AUDIENCE
  1. The act of hearing; attention to sounds. Thou, therefore, give due audience, and attend. Milton. 2. Admittance to a hearing; a formal interview, esp. with a sovereign or the head of a government, for conference or the transaction of business.
• ASSOCIATION
  1. The act of associating, or state of being associated; union; connection, whether of persons of things. "Some . . . bond of association." Hooker. Self-denial is a kind of holy association with God. Boyle. 2. Mental connection, or that which is
• UNISONANCE
  Accordance of sounds; unison.
• GUILDABLE
  Liable to a tax.
• ASSOCIATIONIST
  One who explains the higher functions and relations of the soul by the association of ideas; e. g., Hartley, J. C. Mill.
• CONVENTIONAL
  1. Formed by agreement or compact; stipulated. Conventional services reserved by tenures upon grants, made out of the crown or knights' service. Sir M. Hale. 2. Growing out of, or depending on, custom or tacit agreement; sanctioned by
• POSSE
  See VOCABULARY
• UNIONISTIC
  Of or pertaining to union or unionists; tending to promote or preserve union.
• CONVENTIONALISM
  The principles or practice of conventionalizing. See Conventionalize, v. t. (more info) 1. That which is received or established by convention or arbitrary agreement; that which is in accordance with the fashion, tradition, or usage.
• TROOPBIRD
  Any troupial.
• CROWD
  1. To push, to press, to shove. Chaucer. 2. To press or drive together; to mass together. "Crowd us and crush us." Shak. 3. To fill by pressing or thronging together; hence, to encumber by excess of numbers or quantity. The balconies and verandas
• CORPORATION
  A body politic or corporate, formed and authorized by law to act as a single person, and endowed by law with the capacity of succession; a society having the capacity of transacting business as an individual. Note: Corporations are aggregate or
• GUILDHALL
  The hall where a guild or corporation usually assembles; a townhall.
• POSSESSIONER
  1. A possessor; a property holder. "Possessioners of riches." E. Hall. Having been of old freemen and possessioners. Sir P. Sidney. 2. An invidious name for a member of any religious community endowed with property in lands, buildings, etc.,
• CONVOCATIONIST
  An advocate or defender of convocation.
• INTERCOMMUNION
  Mutual communion; as, an intercommunion of deities. Faber.
• MEGATHEROID
  One of a family of extinct edentates found in America. The family includes the megatherium, the megalonyx, etc.
• REUNION
  1. A second union; union formed anew after separation, secession, or discord; as, a reunion of parts or particles of matter; a reunion of parties or sects. 2. An assembling of persons who have been separated, as of a family, or the members of a
• IMBORDER
  To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.
• TRUST COMPANY
  Any corporation formed for the purpose of acting as trustee. Such companies usually do more or less of a banking business.
• PUBLIC-SERVICE CORPORATION; QUASI-PUBLIC CORPORATION
  A corporation, such as a railroad company, lighting company, water company, etc., organized or chartered to follow a public calling or to render services more or less essential to the general public convenience or safety.
• MISORDER
  To order ill; to manage erroneously; to conduct badly. Shak.