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Word Meanings - EPISCOPALIAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pertaining to bishops, or government by bishops; episcopal; specifically, of or relating to the Protestant Episcopal Church.

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  • CHURCHLINESS
    Regard for the church.
  • CHURCHLIKE
    Befitting a church or a churchman; becoming to a clergyman. Shak.
  • RELATIONSHIP
    The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance. Mason.
  • EPISCOPALIANISM
    The doctrine and usages of Episcopalians; episcopacy.
  • SPECIFICALLY
    In a specific manner.
  • 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.
  • CHURCH MODES
    The modes or scales used in ancient church music. See Gregorian.
  • CHURCHSHIP
    State of being a church. South.
  • RELATIVELY
    In a relative manner; in relation or respect to something else; not absolutely. Consider the absolute affections of any being as it is in itself, before you consider it relatively. I. Watts.
  • CHURCHMANLY
    Pertaining to, or becoming, a churchman. Milman.
  • RELATE
    1. To bring back; to restore. Abate your zealous haste, till morrow next again Both light of heaven and strength of men relate. Spenser. 2. To refer; to ascribe, as to a source. 3. To recount; to narrate; to tell over. This heavy act with heavy
  • RELATIVITY
    The state of being relative; as, the relativity of a subject. Coleridge.
  • GOVERNMENTAL
    Pertaining to government; made by government; as, governmental duties.
  • PROTESTANT
    1. Making a protest; protesting. 2. Of or pertaining to the faith and practice of those Christians who reject the authority of the Roman Catholic Church; as, Protestant writers.
  • RELATRIX
    A female relator.
  • CHURCHISM
    Strict adherence to the forms or principles of some church organization; sectarianism.
  • 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
  • GOVERNMENT
    The influence of a word in regard to construction, requiring that another word should be in a particular case. (more info) 1. The act of governing; the exercise of authority; the administration of laws; control; direction; regulation; as, civil,
  • PRELATIST
    One who supports of advocates prelacy, or the government of the church by prelates; hence, a high-churchman. Hume. I am an Episcopalian, but not a prelatist. T. Scott.
  • PRELATISM
    Prelacy; episcopacy.
  • PRELATIZE
    To bring under the influence of prelacy. Palfrey.
  • MISRELATION
    Erroneous relation or narration. Abp. Bramhall.
  • MISGOVERNMENT
    Bad government; want of government. Shak.
  • IRRELATIVE
    Not relative; without mutual relations; unconnected. -- Ir*rel"a*tive*ly, adv. Irrelative chords , those having no common tone. -- Irrelative repetition , the multiplication of parts that serve for a common purpose, but have no mutual dependence
  • CORRELATIVENESS
    Quality of being correlative.
  • 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
  • IRRELATION
    The quality or state of being irrelative; want of connection or relation.

 

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