Word Meanings - DISENDOW - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To deprive of an endowment, as a church. Gladstone.
Related words: (words related to DISENDOW)
- CHURCHLINESS
Regard for the church. - DEPRIVEMENT
Deprivation. - CHURCHLIKE
Befitting a church or a churchman; becoming to a clergyman. Shak. - 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. - CHURCH MODES
The modes or scales used in ancient church music. See Gregorian. - ENDOWMENT
1. The act of bestowing a dower, fund, or permanent provision for support. 2. That which is bestowed or settled on a person or an institution; property, fund, or revenue permanently appropriated to any object; as, the endowment of a church, - CHURCHSHIP
State of being a church. South. - CHURCHMANLY
Pertaining to, or becoming, a churchman. Milman. - GLADSTONE
A four-wheeled pleasure carriage with two inside seats, calash top, and seats for driver and footman. - CHURCHISM
Strict adherence to the forms or principles of some church organization; sectarianism. - DEPRIVER
One who, or that which, deprives. - CHURCHGOER
One who attends church. - CHURCHY
Relating to a church; unduly fond of church forms. - CHURCHWARDEN
1. One of the officers in an Episcopal church, whose duties vary in different dioceses, but always include the provision of what is necessary for the communion service. 2. A clay tobacco pipe, with a long tube. There was a small wooden table - CHURCH-HAW
Churchyard. Chaucer. - CHURCHLY
Pertaining to, or suitable for, the church; ecclesiastical. - CHURCH-ALE
A church or parish festival (as in commemoration of the dedication of a church), at which much ale was used. Wright. Nares. - CHURCHGOING
1. Habitually attending church. 2. Summoning to church. The sound of the churchgoing bell. Cowper. - HIGH-CHURCHMAN
One who holds high-church principles. - 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 - LOW-CHURCHISM
The principles of the low-church party. - HIGH-CHURCH
Of or pertaining to, or favoring, the party called the High Church, or their doctrines or policy. See High Church, under High, a. - EASTERN CHURCH
That portion of the Christian church which prevails in the countries once comprised in the Eastern Roman Empire and the countries converted to Christianity by missionaries from them. Its full official title is The Orthodox Catholic Apostolic Eastern - CHOPCHURCH
An exchanger or an exchange of benefices. - HIGH-CHURCHISM
The principles of the high-church party. - COPTIC CHURCH
The native church of Egypt or church of Alexandria, which in general organization and doctrines resembles the Roman Catholic Church, except that it holds to the Monophysitic doctrine which was condemned by the council of Chalcedon, and allows