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(Christianity) One who has received the highest of the four minor orders in the Catholic Church, being ordained to carry the wine, water and lights at Mass.
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The condition of being an acolyte.
n
(Christianity) A layperson, often a child or adolescent, who assists a member of the clergy during a Christian liturgy, attending to supporting tasks at the altar.
n
A member of a monastic community responsible for providing food and drink; cellarer.
n
An officer in the church of Constantinople, whose business it was to inform the people of the festivals to be celebrated.
n
One who attends the Bilderberg meeting, an annual conference between Europe and North America.
adj
Resembling, or pertaining to a bishop.
adj
Pertaining to the culture of blue-collar workers.
n
Rule by capitouls, (specifically, historical) the former municipal government of Toulouse, France, under their direction.
adj
Pertaining to an ecclesiastical chapter.
n
(Christianity) A traditional caution or written direction about the proper manner of administering the sacraments.
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a chairman.
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The district attached to a chapel; a division of a large parish which has its own district chapel.
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A building attached to a cathedral, church, or monastery and used as a meeting place.
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A Quaker building used as a church and meeting-place.
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A customary right of way to the parish church over land lying within the parish.
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One of the sections into which a Methodist church or congregation is divided, supervised by a class leader.
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(UK, obsolete) A feast for the benefit of the parish clerk.
n
Obsolete spelling of clerk [A salesclerk; a person who serves customers in a store or market.]
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a clerk; tidy, bureaucratic, etc.
adv
(obsolete) In a scholarly manner.
adj
Naive, lacking in worldliness.
n
(in idioms) Priesthood, clergy.
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A reading held from the work mentioned above, as a regular service in Benedictine monasteries.
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(Christianity) A church court held by certain Reformed denominations.
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(historical) The original open-air public meeting space of Ancient Rome, of great religious significance.
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A small or private assembly, especially of an ecclesiastical nature.
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(Roman Catholicism) The set of apartments in which the elector cardinals are secluded while a conclave takes place.
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A voluntary association of Congregational churches of a district; the district in which such churches are.
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A corporate body whose members gather for worship, or the members of such a body.
adj
Of or pertaining to a congregation.
n
(obsolete) An assembly or congregation of people, especially in religious contexts.
n
A place of standing or staying together; hence, any solemn assembly or council.
n
A hospitality room at a con (an organized gathering such as a convention, conference or congress).
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A gathering of people lasting several days for the purpose of discussing or working on topics previously selected.
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The place where such a meeting is held.
n
Attending conferences or conventions
n
An assembly of the clergy, by their representatives, to consult on ecclesiastical affairs.
n
(Wicca) A permanent circle or temple used to meet for rituals and to store religious items, often a mundane location.
adj
(Freemasonry, chiefly Scotland) Practical (operative), as opposed to theoretic (speculative).
adj
Pertaining to the ordinal written by Thomas Cranmer in 1552 and the clergy who were ordained using this ordinal.
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A hermit; a religious recluse, someone who lives alone.
n
A religious meeting where attendees relate their religious experiences.
n
An area of a church where relics are kept.
adj
(ecclesiastical) Pertaining to an ordinary weekday, rather than a festival or fast.
n
A conventicle, or unauthorized religious meeting.
n
(Christianity) A church congregation, a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church; the Christian church as a whole, the flock of Christ.
v
(idiomatic) To submit to the pope.
adj
Of or relating to skilled knowledge workers, traditionally classified as white-collar, but essential to a business.
adj
Resembling or characteristic of government.
adj
Alternative form of gray-collar [Of or pertaining to working-class professions that do not involve significant manual labor, such as skilled technical professions, combining elements of blue-collar and white-collar.]
adj
Of or pertaining to working-class professions that do not involve significant manual labor, such as skilled technical professions, combining elements of blue-collar and white-collar.
n
(archaic, Christianity) the Last Judgment
adj
(obsolete) gregarious; belonging to the herd or common sort
adj
(mainly UK) Alternative spelling of gray-collar [Of or pertaining to working-class professions that do not involve significant manual labor, such as skilled technical professions, combining elements of blue-collar and white-collar.]
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a judge.
n
A meeting of the Ku Klux Klan.
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a lawyer.
adj
Of or pertaining to a lictor
n
(Christianity) The office appointed to be read during the religious ceremony of foot-washing.
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a mentor.
n
An association of ministers from various religious groups who come together to work for a specific purpose, such as meeting the socioeconomic needs of a community.
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(Christianity) A bench in a church for people who regard themselves as sinners and are waiting for the Holy Spirit to enter them.
adj
(Freemasonry) Not secret and therefore printed in the Monitor.
n
The period during which a novice of a religious order undergoes training.
n
The role or status of a novitiate.
n
Abbreviation of office. [(Christianity) The authorized form of ceremonial worship of a church.]
n
(Christianity) Any special liturgy, as the Office for the Dead or of the Virgin.
adj
Resembling, characteristic of, or befitting a officer.
n
(now historical) The chaplain of Newgate prison, who prepared condemned prisoners for death.
n
A church that serves as the religious centre of a parish; the basic administrative unit of episcopal churches.
adj
(UK, dated, derogatory, figuratively) parochial, of local interest only; petty
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a parson.
n
An organization or body consisting of multiple pastors.
n
A female pastor (person who tends to a flock)
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a police force.
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a policeman.
n
A meeting held for the express purpose of praying.
n
(religion) a meeting held for the purpose of offering prayers.
adj
Of, pertaining to or at the level of a prefecture.
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a priestess.
n
Alternative form of procathedral [A church used in place of a cathedral.]
n
A raised platform in a church, usually enclosed, where the minister or preacher stands when giving the sermon.
adj
Alternative form of quaestorial [Of or relating to a quaestor.]
n
a person who lives in self-imposed isolation or seclusion from the world, especially for religious purposes; a hermit
n
Alternative form of reclusory [The habitation of a recluse; a hermitage.]
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a sanctuary.
adj
Of, befitting, or characteristic of a senior; seniorlike.
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a steward.
n
A constitution made in a provincial or diocesan synod.
adj
Pertaining to a tabernacle.
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a vicar.
adj
Alternative form of white-collar [Of or pertaining to office work and workers; contrasted with blue-collar.]
adj
Of or pertaining to office work and workers; contrasted with blue-collar.
adj
Alternative form of white-collar [Of or pertaining to office work and workers; contrasted with blue-collar.]
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