Word Meanings - VESTRY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A parochial assembly; an assembly of persons who manage parochial affairs; -- so called because usually held in a vestry. (more info) vestiarium, fr. vestiarius belonging to clothes, fr. vestis a 1. A room appendant to a church, in which sacerdotal

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A parochial assembly; an assembly of persons who manage parochial affairs; -- so called because usually held in a vestry. (more info) vestiarium, fr. vestiarius belonging to clothes, fr. vestis a 1. A room appendant to a church, in which sacerdotal vestments and sacred utensils are sometimes kept, and where meetings for worship or parish business are held; a sacristy; -- formerly called revestiary. He said unto him that was over the vestry, Bring forth vestments for all the worshipers of Baal. 2 Kings x. 22.

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• APPENDANT
  A inheritance annexed by prescription to a superior inheritance. (more info) 1. Anything attached to another as incidental or subordinate to it.
• CALLOSUM
  The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus.
• CALLOW
  1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play .
• CHURCHLINESS
  Regard for the church.
• CALLE
  A kind of head covering; a caul. Chaucer.
• CHURCHLIKE
  Befitting a church or a churchman; becoming to a clergyman. Shak.
• SACERDOTAL
  Of or pertaining to priests, or to the order of priests; relating to the priesthood; priesty; as, sacerdotal dignity; sacerdotal functions. The ascendency of the sacerdotal order was long the ascendency which naturally and properly belongs
• SACERDOTALISM
  The system, style, spirit, or character, of a priesthood, or sacerdotal order; devotion to the interests of the sacerdotal order.
• CALLER
  1. Cool; refreshing; fresh; as, a caller day; the caller air. Jamieson. 2. Fresh; in good condition; as, caller berrings.
• 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.
• PAROCHIALIZE
  To render parochial; to form into parishes.
• PAROCHIALISM
  The quality or state of being parochial in form or nature; a system of management peculiar to parishes.
• CHURCH-BENCH
  A seat in the porch of a church. Shak.
• CALL
  1. To speak in loud voice; to cry out; to address by name; -- sometimes with to. You must call to the nurse. Shak. The angel of God called to Hagar. Gen. xxi. 17. 2. To make a demand, requirement, or request. They called for rooms, and he showed
• CHURCH MODES
  The modes or scales used in ancient church music. See Gregorian.
• CLOTHESLINE
  A rope or wire on which clothes are hung to dry.
• VESTRY
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• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
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• CALLIOPE
  The Muse that presides over eloquence and heroic poetry; mother of Orpheus, and chief of the nine Muses. (more info) beautiful) +
• GYMNASTICALLY
  In a gymnastic manner.
• HYPERCRITICALLY
  In a hypercritical manner.
• UNEMPIRICALLY
  Not empirically; without experiment or experience.
• SCALLION
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• UNIVOCALLY
  In a univocal manner; in one term; in one sense; not equivocally. How is sin univocally distinguished into venial and mortal, if the venial be not sin Bp. Hall.
• BEDCLOTHES
  Blankets, sheets, coverlets, etc., for a bed. Shak.
• PARABOLICALLY
  1. By way of parable; in a parabolic manner. 2. In the form of a parabola.
• STEREOGRAPHICALLY
  In a stereographical manner; by delineation on a plane.
• HEMEROCALLIS
  A genus of plants, some species of which are cultivated for their beautiful flowers; day lily.
• ACRONYCALLY
  In an acronycal manner as rising at the setting of the sun, and vise versâ.
• DIAMETRICALLY
  In a diametrical manner; directly; as, diametrically opposite. Whose principles were diametrically opposed to his. Macaulay.
• PHYSIOLOGICALLY
  In a physiological manner.
• MISMANAGER
  One who manages ill.
• ETHNICALLY
  In an ethnical manner.