Word Meanings - CHURCHMANLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pertaining to, or becoming, a churchman. Milman.

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• BECOME
  happen; akin to D. bekomen, OHG.a piquëman, Goth. biquiman to come 1. To pass from one state to another; to enter into some state or condition, by a change from another state, or by assuming or receiving new properties or qualities, additional
• CHURCHMANLY
  Pertaining to, or becoming, a churchman. Milman.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• BECOMED
  Proper; decorous. And gave him what becomed love I might. Shak.
• BECOMINGLY
  In a becoming manner.
• BECOMINGNESS
  The quality of being becoming, appropriate, or fit; congruity; fitness. The becomingness of human nature. Grew.
• CHURCHMANSHIP
  The state or quality of being a churchman; attachment to the church.
• BECOMING
  Appropriate or fit; congruous; suitable; graceful; befitting. A low and becoming tone. Thackeray. Note: Formerly sometimes followed by of. Such discourses as are becoming of them. Dryden. Syn. -- Seemly; comely; decorous; decent; proper.
• CHURCHMAN
  1. An ecclesiastic or clergyman. 2. An Episcopalian, or a member of the Established Church of England. "A zealous churchman." Macaulay. 3. One was is attached to, or attends, church.
• UNBECOMING
  Not becoming; unsuitable; unfit; indecorous; improper. My grief lets unbecoming speeches fall. Dryden. -- Un`be*com"ing*ly, adv. -- Un`be*com"ing*ness, n.
• HIGH-CHURCHMAN
  One who holds high-church principles.
• UNBECOME
  To misbecome. Bp. Sherlock.
• MISBECOMING
  Unbecoming. Milton. -- Mis`be*com"ing*ly, adv. -- Mis`be*com"ing*ness, n. Boyle.
• MISBECOME
  Not to become; to suit ill; not to befit or be adapted to. Macaulay. Thy father will not act what misbecomes him. Addison.
• DISBECOME
  To misbecome. Massinger.
• LOW-CHURCHMANSHIP
  The state of being a low-churchman.
• LOW-CHURCHMAN
  One who holds low-church principles.
• HIGH-CHURCHMAN-SHIP
  The state of being a high-churchman. J. H. Newman.
• APPERTAIN
  To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate. Things appertaining to this life. Hooker. Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth. Lev. vi. 5. (more info) appartenir, fr. L. appertinere; ad + pertinere to reach