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Church

noun

One of the groups of Christians who have their own beliefs and forms of worship. Synonym: Christian church.

A place for public (especially Christian) worship. Synonym: church building.

A service conducted in a house of worship. Synonym: church service.

The body of people who attend or belong to a particular local church.

verb

(past & past part. churched; pres. part. churching)

Perform a special church rite or service for.

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"Church" Quotes from Famous Books

... 4 Marlborough Place, stands on the north side of that quiet street, close to its junction with Abbey Road. It is next door to the Presbyterian Church, on the other side of which again is a Jewish synagogue. The irregular front of the house, with the original cottage, white-painted and deep eaved, joined by a big porch to the new uncompromising square face of yellow brick, distinguished only by its extremely large windows, was screened ...

— The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Volume 2 • Leonard Huxley

... families judge it necessary to convoy you to the civil magistrate's and to the church, before conducting the ...

— Analytical Studies • Honore de Balzac

... yet boasting in its central heart a hundred yards or so of splendour, where the truculent new red brick Post Office sneers across the flagged market square at the new Portland-stone Town Hall, while the old thatched corn-market sleeps in the middle and the Early English spire of the Norman church dreams calmly above them. Once, I say, a Sleepy Hollow, but now alive with the tramp of soldiers and the rumble of artillery and transport; for Wellingsford is the centre of a district occupied by ...

— The Red Planet • William J. Locke

... away, and, hurriedly taking the direction of St. Mark's, entered a side-door, and stood within its sacred walls. The church was empty and dimly lighted. Antonio knelt down behind one of the ...

— Prince Eugene and His Times • L. Muhlbach

... remain, for a time, in a crowded, ill-ventilated, hall or church, and headache or faintness is generally produced. This is caused by the action of impure blood upon ...

— A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (Revised Edition) • Calvin Cutter

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