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(historical, chiefly in the plural) A believer in the real presence of Christ's body in the Eucharist, but not by transubstantiation.
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A church that practises Anglicanism.
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All the Churches of the Anglican Communion, and their worshippers.
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(Christianity, chiefly Eastern Orthodoxy and Catholicism, specifically) The praxis or "exercise" of asceticism and self-denial of impulses or passions for the sake of piety, theosis, and connection with God.
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(Christianity) Tribulation endured as spiritual discipline.
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A Roman Catholic church or cathedral with basilican status, an honorific status granted by the pope to recognize its historical, architectural, or sacramental importance.
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(figuratively) All believers in Jesus Christ as a group; the Church.
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Any member of an association of scholars, originally all Jesuits, who since the early seventeenth century have studied hagiography and the cult of the saints in Christianity.
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(specifically) Members of the Church of the Brethren.
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(loosely or informally) A large or important church building.
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Literally "universal church", the whole body of Christendom, especially before the division into Western and Eastern churches.
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(rare) The jurisdiction of an Armenian catholicos.
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(rare, Christianity) The jurisdiction of a catholicos.
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Pronunciation spelling of Catholic. [A member of a Catholic church.]
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A Christian religious group that meets to study the Bible, usually in a member's home.
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A member of a religious sect in the 18th and 19th centuries that questioned the legitimacy of the priesthood.
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A Christian who does not frequently attend church, attending only on the major holidays of Christmas and Easter.
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A mixture of oil and balm, consecrated for use as an anointing fluid in certain Christian ceremonies, especially confirmation.
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Of or pertaining to or used in chrism.
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(ecclesiastical) The sacrament of applying chrism to complete baptism in the Orthodox and Eastern Catholic churches.
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befitting a Christian.
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A Christian who does not frequently attend church, attending only on the major holidays of Christmas and Easter.
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The English branch of the Christian Church; (since the 16th century) specifically the established Protestant church in England which is the mother church of the Anglican Communion.
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A supporter of a particular church.
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The beliefs and practices of the Conventuals, a Franciscan order.
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of, relating to, or being a czar; tsaric
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One versed in ecclesiology.
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Of or relating to Anglicanism or an Anglican church, especially the Scottish Episcopal Church, the Episcopal Church in the United States of America, or the Anglican churches in the Philippines, western Asia, South Sudan, the Horn of Africa, and most of north Africa.
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An adherent of an Anglican church, especially the Scottish Episcopal Church, the Episcopal Church in the United States of America, or the Anglican churches in the Philippines, western Asia, South Sudan, the Horn of Africa, and most of north Africa.
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A Christian who flouts social conventions, for example by giving away all worldly goods, in order to serve the religion.
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Pertaining to the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel.
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a place of worship affiliated with this type of religious denomination
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(UK, slang, derogatory) A person who persistently promotes religious beliefs to others, even when unwelcome.
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Given or sent by God, or apparently so.
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(historical, politics) In the politics of medieval Italian city states, any member of a faction that supported the Pope in a long struggle against the Ghibellines and the Holy Roman Emperor.
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A member of the Church of England who prioritises those aspects of Anglicanism which distinguish it from Calvinism and other Protestant denominations, and which it has in common with Catholicism, especially the authority of the priesthood and the importance of church ritual.
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Pertaining to any of the sacraments of the Roman Catholic Church, such as marriage.
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(Scotland) Someone who goes to kirk; a churchgoer.
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Alternative form of ktetor [One who funds the building or reconstruction of an Eastern Orthodox church or monastery.]
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A statement that someone or something is blessed, happy, fortunate, or is to be honored or congratulated; a beatitude, as in the Sermon on the Mount. Used for Hebrew and Greek statements, a technical term in the academic literature of Judaism and Christianity.
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(obsolete, humorous) A Scottish Presbyterian minister, as opposed to an Anglican or Catholic clergyman.
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(historical) A member of a congregation of Benedictine monks of the Armenian Catholic Church established in 1717 by Abbot Mekhitar of Sebaste on the island of San Lazzaro, south of Venice.
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A monk, especially one who was part of the religious reform movement of the fourth century.
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Obsolete form of monastic. [Of or relating to monasteries or monks.]
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(Christianity) A church with oversight over another or others, now especially a cathedral or metropolitan church.
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To be kept hidden, in the manner of the Pharisee Nicodemus.
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(specifically) A Catholic church belonging to the Oratory of Saint Philip Neri.
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A member at a certain grade of the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids, a neo-druidism order based in England.
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Of or resembling Matthew Parker (1504–1575), English bishop and theologian.
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Of or pertaining to the Pharisees.
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(derogatory, used by early Protestants) of or pertaining to Roman Catholicism
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In favour of the church.
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(Lutheranism) Relating to the belief that the Book of Concord is authoritative because it faithfully describes the Christian faith as revealed in the Bible.
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Alternative form of quiritary [(law, historical) Belonging to the Quirites, or citizens of early Rome; applied to the right of mancipatio granted to these people.]
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A particular Anglican Church based in the United States.
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The Latin liturgical rite developed at Salisbury Cathedral from the late eleventh century until the English Reformation.
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(Christianity) A monastic habit in the Greek Orthodox Church.
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An order of Roman Catholic clergy, the Jesuits, having a tradition of education, theological scholarship, and missionary work; formed during the 16th century.
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(of an Eastern Orthodox or Eastern Catholicism monastery) Stauropegial.
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A Christian whose observance is limited to attending church on Sundays.
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A god, or a similar deity, characterized by power over all things.
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(historical) Government by an assembly of citizens in Ancient Greece.
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(Orthodox Christianity) An ecclesiastical document, usually promulgated by a synod which communicates or announces important information.
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(religion) A Quaker who supports the ideas of the minister John Wilbur (1774–1856); a member or adherent of the Conservative Friends.
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