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.