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Alternative spelling of anchorite [One who lives in isolation or seclusion, especially for religious reasons; hermit.]
n
A worldwide network of Churches that are are in communion with the Church of England as represented by the Archbishop of Canterbury
adj
(Roman Catholicism) of or relating to an antipope
n
(religion) A chief or major heresy.
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(Christianity) A Christian Pentecostal denomination made up of a number of autonomous groupings of churches in various countries.
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The liturgy of the Church of England, first compiled by Thomas Cranmer in 1549 after the (Act of Uniformity).
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The religious instruction given to a catechumen.
adj
Vaulted like a cathedral.
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a cathedral.
adj
Relating to, or resembling, a cathedral.
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One who engages in champing, in the sense of camping in churches.
adj
(Wales) Describing a person who attends a nonconformist chapel.
n
One who regularly attends chapel.
adj
Regularly attending chapel.
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(slang) An individual who attends religious services only twice a year, at Christmas and Easter.
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(ecclesiastical, transitive) To anoint; to perform the sacrament of chrismation upon.
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Part of a church set aside for the rite of confirmation.
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(uncountable, countable, as bare noun) Christian worship held at a church; service.
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The religious denomination or part of a religious denomination a person, institute, business, or other organization has joined or supports.
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(informal) A person who is strongly interested, in an amateur capacity, in ecclesiology, church architecture, history and church art, and visits churches in order to view the buildings for themselves, as opposed to visiting them for religious reasons.
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(religion, chiefly Evangelical Christianity) A minister or organization that starts new congregations where none existed previously.
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A formalized period of communal worship, often but not exclusively occurring on Sunday, or Saturday in the case of those churches practicing Sabbatarianism.
n
Alternative form of churchgoer [One who regularly goes to church; a practicing Christian.]
adj
Alternative form of churchgoing [Regularly attending church; being a practicing Christian.]
adj
Dominated by the church or churches.
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The institution, government, or authority of a church.
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The practice of regularly attending church.
adj
(Christianity, informal) Pertaining to or characteristic of church; ecclesiastical.
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Alternative form of churchy [(mildly pejorative) one who is piously Christian]
adj
Like a church; (solidly or piously) Christian.
adj
Resembling or befitting a church or a worship service.
adj
In accordance with ecclesiastical standards or ceremonies; appropriate for or befitting a church.
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A member or adherent of an established church, especially the Church of England.
adj
Befitting a churchman.
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A person involved with the church; a churchgoer or cleric.
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(rare) Alternative spelling of church planter [(religion, chiefly Evangelical Christianity) A minister or organization that starts new congregations where none existed previously.]
n
Clothing intended to be worn in church.
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The craft or skill of being a churchwoman.
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The work done by a church to spread religion.
adj
Reminiscent of a church service.
adj
Of, pertaining to or characteristic of the Cistercian Order and its members.
adj
(idiomatic, US) Relating to a similar secular ritual.
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(religion) The adherence of various Christian communities to the authority of ecumenical councils and to synodal church government.
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(Christianity) A name given usually by a pastor to a confirmand during a confirmation ceremony in various Christian denominations.
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A member of a congregation.
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Any Protestant church run independently by its own congregation, especially one in the Reformed (Calvinist) and/or Dissenter traditions, such as the United Church of Christ, the National Association of Congregational Christian Churches, or the Conservative Congregational Christian Conference.
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Any of several forms of church organization in which each congregation is responsible for its own government.
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A member of a Congregational church.
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(religion) The description for a Methodist denomination as a whole, as opposed to its constituent churches, circuits, districts and conferences.
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The description for a Methodist denomination as a whole, as opposed to its constituent churches, circuits, districts and conferences (US spelling: connection).
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(Christianity, historical) The unique sacrament ritual of the Cathars.
adj
Alternative form of diocesan [Pertaining to a diocese.]
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(biblical) The congregation, the group of believers, symbolic body or building.
adj
Alternative form of ecclesiastical [Of or pertaining to the church.]
adj
Of or pertaining to the church; ecclesiastical.
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The science of building and decorating churches.
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The ecclesiastic who reads the epistle at the communion service.
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A church that is officially recognized as a national or state church by a government; in England it is the Church of England.
adj
Of or relating to an exarch.
n
(Protestantism) A religious experience attributed to the Holy Ghost "filling" a believer.
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(religion) The founder of a heresy, or a major ecclesiastical proponent of such a heresy.
adj
Of, pertaining to, or typical of a hermit
n
priesthood, its principles and practices
n
(Christianity) A worship style that favors very formal, traditional liturgy and worship.
n
(informal, usually derogatory) A member of any Christian church characterized by ecstatic behaviour; especially of the Pentecostal Church.
n
The activities of a hot gospeller.
adj
(Christianity) self-regulating; usually referring to a form of monastic life where monks live alone, often in isolation, constantly in mental prayer
n
(Christianity) The brief exhortation introducing the confession in the Anglican communion-office.
v
(religion, dated) To attend the requisite number of church services.
adj
(Scotland) Having attended church for the first time after a wedding, birth, or other significant event.
adj
(Scotland) churchlike; churchly
adj
(archaic) Of or pertaining to a layperson, layman, laywoman, or laypeople (laity).
n
(Christianity) A book or listing that contains a collection of readings for Christian worship.
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(religion) A lay person who reads aloud certain religious texts in a church service.
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One who leads public worship.
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(Christianity) A worship style that is modern, nontraditional and informal.
n
The philosophical construct that is the basis of the authority of the Son of Heaven.
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(slang, derogatory) A church that has a strong element of entertainment, consumerism, or commercialism which obscures its religious aspects.
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A church with an atypically large congregation.
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(countable, Catholicism) An infrequent gathering of religious believers in a parish, usually part of a larger regional event with a central theme.
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a monastery.
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(Roman Catholicism) A person dedicated to a life of religion or monasticism, especially a member of an order without religious vows or a lay member of a religious community.
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Confirmation, as by the Holy Spirit.
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(Christianity) A daily service without the eucharist.
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(religion) The practice of some Protestant churches to allow all people to take Communion, regardless of being members of the church or not.
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Alternative letter-case form of orderite; a member of a specified (real or notional) Order (for example, the United Order or the New World Order). [(rare) A member of an order.]
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(Roman Catholicism) The version of the Roman Rite introduced after the Second Vatican Council, usually celebrated in the vernacular.
adj
Having too many churches.
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(obsolete) A papal doctrine.
n
Pentecostal manifestation, such as in a church service.
n
One who postillates; one who expounds the Scriptures verse by verse.
adj
Participating in the rituals and mores of a religion.
adj
(archaic, derogatory) prelatical
n
A person belonging to a church in the tradition of Presbyterianism.
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(derogatory) Any practices of Christianity that place an excessive emphasis on the role of the priest.
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a priest.
adj
Of or pertaining to the Puritans, or to their doctrines and practice.
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a puritan.
adj
(Christianity) Bound by religious rule; belonging to a monastic or religious order (often as opposed to secular).
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A member of a religious order, i.e. a monk or nun.
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One who practices sacerdotalism.
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(theology) Someone who holds that the presence of Christ in the sacrament of the Eucharist is purely metaphorical rather than physical or literal.
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A Protestant Christian church and an international charitable organisation structured in a quasi-military fashion, originally founded to help the poor of London.
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The belief, held by a minority of traditionalist Catholics, that the present occupant of the Holy See is not the true pope and that the see has been vacant since the 1960s.
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(Christianity) The shared use of a church for both Protestant and Catholic services.
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(Christianity, chiefly Roman Catholicism) the obligation to attend a church service (mass) on Sundays; failing to fulfil this obligation without excuse constitutes a grave sin
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(usually of clothes) Suitable for wearing to church; one's best.
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(Roman Catholicism) A married man or woman who is a secular member of Opus Dei, a Roman Catholic religious institution.
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One who (regularly) attends synagogue; a practicing Jew.
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A religious minister (often a Christian priest or minister) who devotes a large portion of his or her ministry to television broadcasts to a regular viewing audience.
adj
Regularly attending a temple for worship.
adj
Having temples (religious buildings).
adj
Alternative form of temple-going [Regularly attending a temple for worship.]
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In Roman Catholic usage, a theological lecturer attached to a cathedral church.
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One who attends two church services on Sundays.
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A church building shared by more than one church congregation, usually to lighten the financial burden (cost per congregation).
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A unified church (sect) comprising formerly separate sects that have joined.
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