Word Meanings - HIGH-CHURCHISM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The principles of the high-church party.

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• CHURCHLINESS
  Regard for the church.
• CHURCHLIKE
  Befitting a church or a churchman; becoming to a clergyman. Shak.
• PARTY
  1. A part or portion. "The most party of the time." Chaucer. 2. A number of persons united in opinion or action, as distinguished from, or opposed to, the rest of a community or association; esp., one of the parts into which a people is divided
• 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.
• PARTY-COLORED; PARTI-COLORED
  Colored with different tints; variegated; as, a party-colored flower. "Parti-colored lambs." Shak.
• CHURCHMANLY
  Pertaining to, or becoming, a churchman. Milman.
• CHURCHISM
  Strict adherence to the forms or principles of some church organization; sectarianism.
• PARTYISM
  Devotion to party.
• 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.
• CHURCH-ALE
  A church or parish festival (as in commemoration of the dedication of a church), at which much ale was used. Wright. Nares.
• CHURCHLY
  Pertaining to, or suitable for, the church; ecclesiastical.
• CHURCHGOING
  1. Habitually attending church. 2. Summoning to church. The sound of the churchgoing bell. Cowper.
• PARTY-COATED
  Having a motley coat, or coat of divers colors. Shak.
• POURPARTY
  A division; a divided share. To make pourparty, to divide and apportion lands previously held in common.
• 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.
• PURPARTY
  A share, part, or portion of an estate allotted to a coparcener. I am forced to eat all the game of your purparties, as well as my own thirds. Walpole.
• 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.