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Word Meanings - SACRARIUM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A sort of family chapel in the houses of the Romans, devoted to a special divinity. 2. The adytum of a temple. Gwilt. 3. In a Christian church, the sanctuary.

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  • CHURCHLINESS
    Regard for the church.
  • CHURCHLIKE
    Befitting a church or a churchman; becoming to a clergyman. Shak.
  • CHRISTIAN
    1. One who believes, or professes or is assumed to believe, in Jesus Christ, and the truth as taught by Him; especially, one whose inward and outward life is conformed to the doctrines of Christ. The disciples were called Christians first
  • TEMPLED
    Supplied with a temple or temples, or with churches; inclosed in a temple. I love thy rocks and rills, Thy woods and templed hills. S. F. Smith.
  • CHRISTIANLY
    Christianlike. Longfellow.
  • CHRISTIAN ERA
    The era in use in all Christian countries, which was intended to commence with the birth of Christ. The era as now established was first used by Dionysius Exiguus , who placed the birth of Christ on the 25th of December in the year of Rome 754,
  • DEVOTIONALLY
    In a devotional manner; toward devotion.
  • 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.
  • FAMILY
    A groupe of organisms, either animal or vegetable, related by certain points of resemblance in structure or development, more comprehensive than a genus, because it is usually based on fewer or less pronounced points of likeness. In zoölogy
  • CHURCH MODES
    The modes or scales used in ancient church music. See Gregorian.
  • DEVOTO
    A devotee. Dr. J. Scott.
  • ADYTUM
    The innermost sanctuary or shrine in ancient temples, whence oracles were given. Hence: A private chamber; a sanctum.
  • CHURCHSHIP
    State of being a church. South.
  • DEVOTE
    1. To appropriate by vow; to set apart or dedicate by a solemn act; to consecrate; also, to consign over; to doom; to evil; to devote one to destruction; the city was devoted to the flames. No devoted thing that a man shall devote unto the Lord
  • CHRISTIANITE
    Same as Anorthite. See Phillipsite.
  • CHURCHMANLY
    Pertaining to, or becoming, a churchman. Milman.
  • CHRISTIAN SOCIALISM
    Any theory or system that aims to combine the teachings of Christ with the teachings of socialism in their applications to life; Christianized socialism; esp., the principles of this nature advocated by F. D. Maurice, Charles Kingsley, and others
  • CHAPELESS
    Without a chape.
  • INDEVOTE
    Not devoted. Bentley. Clarendon.
  • ANTICHRISTIANISM; ANTICHRISTIANITY
    Opposition or contrariety to the Christian religion.
  • ANTECHAPEL
    The outer part of the west end of a collegiate or other chapel. Shipley.
  • UNSPECIALIZED
    Not specialized; specifically , not adapted, or set apart, for any particular purpose or function; as, an unspecialized unicellular organism. W. K. Brooks.
  • ESPECIALNESS
    The state of being especial.
  • SELF-DEVOTION
    The act of devoting one's self, or the state of being self- devoted; willingness to sacrifice one's own advantage or happiness for the sake of others; self-sacrifice.
  • 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

 

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