Word Meanings - PAPISTRY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The doctrine and ceremonies of the Church of Rome; popery. Whitgift.

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• CHURCHLINESS
  Regard for the church.
• 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.
• CHURCHSHIP
  State of being a church. South.
• CHURCHMANLY
  Pertaining to, or becoming, a churchman. Milman.
• CHURCHISM
  Strict adherence to the forms or principles of some church organization; sectarianism.
• 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.
• POPERY
  The religion of the Roman Catholic Church, comprehending doctrines and practices; -- generally used in an opprobrious sense.
• CHURCH-ALE
  A church or parish festival (as in commemoration of the dedication of a church), at which much ale was used. Wright. Nares.
• CHURCHLY
  Pertaining to, or suitable for, the church; ecclesiastical.
• CHURCHGOING
  1. Habitually attending church. 2. Summoning to church. The sound of the churchgoing bell. Cowper.
• CHURCHMANSHIP
  The state or quality of being a churchman; attachment to the church.
• CHURCHMAN
  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.
• CHURCHLESS
  Without a church. T. Fuller.
• 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