Word Meanings - ALTARIST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A chaplain. A vicar of a church.

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• CHURCHLINESS
  Regard for the church.
• CHURCHLIKE
  Befitting a church or a churchman; becoming to a clergyman. Shak.
• 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.
• VICARIAN
  A vicar. Marston.
• CHURCH MODES
  The modes or scales used in ancient church music. See Gregorian.
• VICARIOUS
  Acting as a substitute; -- said of abnormal action which replaces a suppressed normal function; as, vicarious hemorrhage replacing menstruation. (more info) turn, the position, place, or office of one person as assumed by another; akin
• CHURCHSHIP
  State of being a church. South.
• CHURCHMANLY
  Pertaining to, or becoming, a churchman. Milman.
• CHAPLAINSHIP
  1. The office or business of a chaplain. The Bethesda of some knight's chaplainship. Milton. 2. The possession or revenue of a chapel. Johnson.
• CHURCHISM
  Strict adherence to the forms or principles of some church organization; sectarianism.
• VICARIATE
  Having delegated power, as a vicar; vicarious. Barrow.
• VICARY
  A vicar.
• VICARIAL
  1. Of or pertaining to a vicar; as, vicarial tithes. 2. Delegated; vicarious; as, vicarial power.
• CHURCHGOER
  One who attends church.
• CHURCHY
  Relating to a church; unduly fond of church forms.
• CHURCHWARDEN
  1. One of the officers in an Episcopal church, whose duties vary in different dioceses, but always include the provision of what is necessary for the communion service. 2. A clay tobacco pipe, with a long tube. There was a small wooden table
• CHAPLAIN
  1. An ecclesiastic who has a chapel, or who performs religious service in a chapel. 2. A clergyman who is officially atteched to the army or navy, to some public institution, or to a family or court, for the purpose of performing divine service.
• CHURCH-HAW
  Churchyard. Chaucer.
• UNVICAR
  To deprive of the position or office a vicar. Strype.
• 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
• LOW-CHURCHISM
  The principles of the low-church party.
• HIGH-CHURCH
  Of or pertaining to, or favoring, the party called the High Church, or their doctrines or policy. See High Church, under High, a.
• EASTERN CHURCH
  That portion of the Christian church which prevails in the countries once comprised in the Eastern Roman Empire and the countries converted to Christianity by missionaries from them. Its full official title is The Orthodox Catholic Apostolic Eastern
• CHOPCHURCH
  An exchanger or an exchange of benefices.
• HIGH-CHURCHISM
  The principles of the high-church party.