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Word Meanings - GRAIL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A book of offices in the Roman Catholic Church; a gradual. T. Warton. Such as antiphonals, missals, grails, processionals, etc. Strype.

Related words: (words related to GRAIL)

  • CATHOLICON
    A remedy for all diseases; a panacea.
  • CHURCHLINESS
    Regard for the church.
  • CHURCHLIKE
    Befitting a church or a churchman; becoming to a clergyman. Shak.
  • ROMANY
    1. A gypsy.
  • CATHOLICIZE
    To make or to become catholic or Roman Catholic.
  • CATHOLICITY
    1. The state or quality of being catholic; universality. 2. Liberality of sentiments; catholicism. 3. Adherence or conformity to the system of doctrine held by all parts of the orthodox Christian church; the doctrine so held; orthodoxy.
  • ROMANTICAL
    Romantic.
  • ROMANISH
    Pertaining to Romanism.
  • 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.
  • ROMANTICIST
    One who advocates romanticism in modern literature. J. R. Seeley.
  • 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.
  • ROMANTICALY
    In a romantic manner.
  • ROMANTIC
    1. Of or pertaining to romance; involving or resembling romance; hence, fanciful; marvelous; extravagant; unreal; as, a romantic tale; a romantic notion; a romantic undertaking. Can anything in nature be imagined more profane and impious, more
  • ROMANIST
    One who adheres to Romanism.
  • ROMANCY
    Romantic.
  • CATHOLICNESS
    The quality of being catholic; universality; catholicity.
  • CATHOLIC
    1. Universal or general; as, the catholic faith. Men of other countries to bear their part in so great and catholic a war. Southey. Note: This epithet, which is applicable to the whole Christian church, or its faith, is claimed by Roman Catholics
  • ELEUTHEROMANIAC
    Mad for freedom.
  • NECROMANCER
    One who practices necromancy; a sorcerer; a wizard.
  • HIEROMANCY
    Divination by observing the objects offered in sacrifice.
  • PYROMANCY
    Divination by means of fire.
  • DIACATHOLICON
    A universal remedy; -- name formerly to a purgative electuary.
  • ANGLO-CATHOLIC
    Of or pertaining to a church modeled on the English Reformation; Anglican; -- sometimes restricted to the ritualistic or High Church section of the Church of England.

 

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