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noun

Pew n.

One of the compartments in a church which are separated by low partitions, and have long seats upon which several persons may sit; sometimes called slip. Pews were originally made square, but are now usually long and narrow.

Any structure shaped like a church pew, as a stall, formerly used by money lenders, etc.; a box in theater; a pen; a sheepfold. (Obs.)

Pew opener, an usher in a church. (Eng.)

verb

Pew v. t. To furnish with pews. (R.)

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"Pew" Quotes from Famous Books

... antipathy to the theology of his fathers, and of pouring sarcasm and ridicule upon it. His father was a Calvinistic divine of the strictest sect; but Dr. Holmes himself has been a life-long Unitarian, and an aggressive one. He owns a pew in King's Chapel and is a regular attendant. Perhaps he is a little of a fatalist. At any rate he always has ...

— Home Life of Great Authors • Hattie Tyng Griswold

... God and Mammon, and illustrating the ease with which a man's duties to both, may be accommodated and adjusted. How the carriages rattle up, and deposit their richly- dressed burdens beneath the lofty portico! The powdered footmen glide along the aisle, place the richly-bound prayer-books on the pew desks, slam the doors, and hurry away, leaving the fashionable members of the congregation to inspect each other through their glasses, and to dazzle and glitter in the eyes of the few shabby people in the free seats. The organ peals forth, the hired singers commence a short hymn, ...

— Sunday Under Three Heads • Charles Dickens

... Sunday in this land of Christian homes and hearts many and many a well-fed, sleek, self-satisfied, well-dressed man, with a high salary and well-established social position, with a luxurious home and money in the bank, goes to church and sits down in a softly cushioned pew to listen to the preaching of the Gospel, while within hearing distance of the services an express train or a freight thunders by upon the road which declares the dividends that make that man's wealth possible? On those trains are groups of coal-begrimed human ...

— Robert Hardy's Seven Days - A Dream and Its Consequences • Charles Monroe Sheldon

... that perhaps they would not come to church this first Sunday, the others scouted the idea with scorn, and the eyes of all the Carews were turned towards the Grange pew ...

— The Gap in the Fence • Frederica J. Turle

... picturesque was the grey structure outside, but within modernism had not done much; the chancel was feebly fitted after the ideas of the "fifties," but the faded woodwork of the nave was intact, and Magdalen still had to sit in the grim pew of her predecessors. ...

— Modern Broods • Charlotte Mary Yonge

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