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Word Meanings - WELL-KNOWN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Fully known; generally known or acknowledged. A church well known with a well-known rite. M. Arnold.

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  • CHURCHLINESS
    Regard for the church.
  • CHURCHLIKE
    Befitting a church or a churchman; becoming to a clergyman. Shak.
  • 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.
  • ACKNOWLEDGE
    1. To of or admit the knowledge of; to recognize as a fact or truth; to declare one's belief in; as, to acknowledge the being of a God. I acknowledge my transgressions. Ps. li. 3. For ends generally acknowledged to be good. Macaulay. 2. To own
  • CHURCH MODES
    The modes or scales used in ancient church music. See Gregorian.
  • CHURCHSHIP
    State of being a church. South.
  • ACKNOWLEDGER
    One who acknowledges.
  • CHURCHMANLY
    Pertaining to, or becoming, a churchman. Milman.
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENT
    1. The act of acknowledging; admission; avowal; owning; confession. "An acknowledgment of fault." Froude. 2. The act of owning or recognized in a particular character or relationship; recognition as regards the existence, authority, truth,
  • CHURCHISM
    Strict adherence to the forms or principles of some church organization; sectarianism.
  • GENERALLY
    1. In general; commonly; extensively, though not universally; most frequently. 2. In a general way, or in general relation; in the main; upon the whole; comprehensively. Generally speaking, they live very quietly. Addison. 3. Collectively; as a
  • KNOWN
    of Know.
  • FULLY
    In a full manner or degree; completely; entirely; without lack or defect; adequately; satisfactorily; as, to be fully persuaded of the truth of a proposition. Fully committed , committed to prison for trial, in distinction from being detained for
  • 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.
  • CHURCHLY
    Pertaining to, or suitable for, the church; ecclesiastical.
  • DISREGARDFULLY
    Negligently; heedlessly.
  • DOUBTFULLY
    In a doubtful manner. Nor did the goddess doubtfully declare. Dryden.
  • HEALTHFULLY
    In health; wholesomely.
  • HIGH-CHURCHMAN
    One who holds high-church principles.
  • RAPFULLY
    Violently.
  • 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
  • LOW-CHURCHISM
    The principles of the low-church party.
  • 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.
  • CAREFULLY
    In a careful manner.
  • 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

 

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