Word Meanings - ROMANISM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The tenets of the Church of Rome; the Roman Catholic religion.

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• 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.
• RELIGION
  A monastic or religious order subject to a regulated mode of life; the religious state; as, to enter religion. Trench. A good man was there of religion. Chaucer. 4. Strictness of fidelity in conforming to any practice, as if it were an enjoined
• 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
• RELIGIONISM
  1. The practice of, or devotion to, religion. 2. Affectation or pretense of religion.
• ROMANIST
  One who adheres to Romanism.
• 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
• CORRELIGIONIST
  A co-religion
• 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.