Word Meanings - GALLICAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Of or pertaining to Gaul or France; Gallic; French; as, the Gallican church or clergy.
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- CHURCHLINESS
Regard for the church. - CHURCHLIKE
Befitting a church or a churchman; becoming to a clergyman. Shak. - GALLICAN
An adherent to, and supporter of, Gallicanism. Shipley. - 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. - CHURCHMANLY
Pertaining to, or becoming, a churchman. Milman. - CLERGYMAN
An ordained minister; a man regularly authorized to peach the gospel, and administer its ordinances; in England usually restricted to a minister of the Established Church. - CHURCHISM
Strict adherence to the forms or principles of some church organization; sectarianism. - FRENCH
Of or pertaining to France or its inhabitants. French bean , the common kidney bean . -- French berry , the berry of a species of buckthorn (Rhamnus catharticus), which affords a saffron, green or purple pigment. -- French casement See French - 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 - CLERGYABLE
Entitled to, or admitting, the benefit of clergy; as, a clergyable felony. Blackstone. - FRENCHIFY
To make French; to infect or imbue with the manners or tastes of the French; to Gallicize. Burke. - CLERGY
clergie confused with OF. clergié, F. clergé, fr. LL. clericatus office of priest, monastic life, fr. L. clericus priest, LL. scholar, clerc. Both the Old French words meant clergy, in sense 1, the former having also sense 2. See 1. The body - 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 - CHURCH-HAW
Churchyard. Chaucer. - PYROGALLIC
Pertaining to, derived from, or designating, an acid called pyrogallol. See Pyrogallol. - RUFIGALLIC
Pertaining to, or designating, an acid which is obtained from gallic acid as a brown or red crystalline substance, and is related to rufiopin and anthracene. - 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 - 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. - LOW-CHURCHISM
The principles of the low-church party. - 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.