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Word Meanings - DISENDOWMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of depriving of an endowment or endowments. disendowment of the Irish Church. G. B. Smith.

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  • 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.
  • SMITHSONIAN
    Of or pertaining to the Englishman J.L.M. Smithson, or to the national institution of learning which he endowed at Washington, D.C.; as, the Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Reports. -- n.
  • 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.
  • SMITHSONITE
    Native zinc carbonate. It generally occurs in stalactitic, reniform, or botryoidal shapes, of a white to gray, green, or brown color. See Note under Calamine.
  • CHURCHISM
    Strict adherence to the forms or principles of some church organization; sectarianism.
  • SMITHER
    Fragments; atoms; finders. Smash the bottle to smithers. Tennyson. (more info) 1. Light, fine rain. 2. pl.
  • SMITH
    Icel. smi, Dan. & Sw. smed, Goth. smi ; cf. Gr. 1. One who forgess with the hammer; one who works in metals; as, a blacksmith, goldsmith, silversmith, and the like. Piers Plowman. Nor yet the smith hath learned to form a sword. Tate. 2. One who
  • SMITHCRAFT
    The art or occupation of a smith; smithing. Sir W. Raleigh.
  • DISENDOWMENT
    The act of depriving of an endowment or endowments. disendowment of the Irish Church. G. B. Smith.
  • DEPRIVER
    One who, or that which, deprives.
  • DEPRIVATION
    the taking away from a clergyman his benefice, or other spiritual promotion or dignity. Note: Deprivation may be a beneficio or ab officio; the first takes away the living, the last degrades and deposes from the order. (more info) 1. The act of
  • CHURCHGOER
    One who attends church.
  • 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.
  • WHITESMITH
    1. One who works in tinned or galvanized iron, or white iron; a tinsmith. 2. A worker in iron who finishes or polishes the work, in distinction from one who forges it.

 

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