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 to other bodies of men holding liberal or comprehensive views of Christian doctrine and fellowship. |
Church (n.) A building set apart for Christian worship. |
Church (n.) A Jewish or heathen temple. |
Church (n.) A formally organized body of Christian believers worshiping together. |
Church (n.) A body of Christian believers, holding the same creed, observing the same rites, and acknowledging the same ecclesiastical authority |
Church (n.) The collective body of Christians. |
Church (n.) Any body of worshipers |
Church (n.) The aggregate of religious influences in a community |
Church (v. t.) To bless according to a prescribed form, or to unite with in publicly returning thanks in church, as after deliverance from the dangers of childbirth |
Church-ale (n.) A church or parish festival (as in commemoration of the dedication of a church), at which much ale was used. |
Church-bench (n.) A seat in the porch of a church. |
Church-haw (n.) Churchyard. |
Church modes () The modes or scales used in ancient church music. See Gregorian. |
Granite State () New Hampshire |
High-church (a.) Of or pertaining to, or favoring, the party called the High Church, or their doctrines or policy. See High Church, under High, a. |
Low-church (a.) Not placing a high estimate on ecclesiastical organizations or forms |
State (n.) The circumstances or condition of a being or thing at any given time. |
State (n.) Rank |
State (n.) Condition of prosperity or grandeur |
State (n.) Appearance of grandeur or dignity |
State (n.) A chair with a canopy above it, often standing on a dais |
State (n.) Estate, possession. |
State (n.) A person of high rank. |
State (n.) Any body of men united by profession, or constituting a community of a particular character |
State (n.) The principal persons in a government. |
State (n.) The bodies that constitute the legislature of a country |
State (n.) A form of government which is not monarchial, as a republic. |
State (n.) A political body, or body politic |
State (n.) In the United States, one of the commonwealth, or bodies politic, the people of which make up the body of the nation, and which, under the national constitution, stands in certain specified relations with the national government, and are invested, as commonwealth, with full power in their several spheres over all matters not expressly inhibited. |
State (n.) Highest and stationary condition, as that of maturity between growth and decline, or as that of crisis between the increase and the abating of a disease |
State (a.) Stately. |
State (a.) Belonging to the state, or body politic |
State (v. t.) To set |
State (v. t.) To express the particulars of |
State (n.) A statement |
state | the way something is with respect to its main attributes, the current state of knowledge, his state of health, in a weak financial state |
change of state | the act of changing something into something different in essential characteristics |
Secretary of State | the position of the head of the State Department, the position of Secretary of State was established in |
state-sponsored terrorism | terrorism practiced by a government against its own people or in support of international terrorism |
church service church | a service conducted in a house of worship, don't be late for church |
church mouse | a fictional mouse created by Lewis Carroll |
chair of state | a ceremonial chair for an exalted or powerful person |
church church building | a place for public (especially Christian) worship, the church was empty |
church bell | a bell in a church tower (usually sounded to summon people to church), church bells were ringing all over town |
church hat | a fanciful hat of the kind worn by Black women for Sunday worship |
church key | can opener that has a triangular pointed end that pierces the tops of cans |
church tower | the tower of a church |
Empire State Building | a skyscraper built in New York City in ,feet tall |
expressway freeway motorway pike state highway superhighway throughway thruway | a broad highway designed for high-speed traffic |
funeral home funeral parlor funeral parlour funeral chapel funeral church funeralesidence | a mortuary where those who knew the deceased can come to pay their last respects |
Ohio State University | a university in Columbus, Ohio |
pew church bench | long bench with backs, used in church by the congregation |
state prison | a prison maintained by a state of the U.S. |
cognitive state state of mind | the state of a person's cognitive processes |
religious trance ecstatic state | a trance induced by intense religious devotion, does not show reduced bodily functions that are typical of other trances |
steady state theory continuous creation theory | (cosmology) the theory that the universe maintains a constant average density with matter created to fill the void left by galaxies that are receding from each other, the steady state theory has been abandoned in favor of the big bang theory |
solid-state physics | the branch of physics that studies the properties of materials in the solid state: electrical conduction in crystals of semiconductors and metals, superconductivity, photoconductivity |
church roll | a list of the members of church |
state's evidence | evidence for the prosecution in criminal proceedings |
religious doctrine church doctrine gospel creed | the written body of teachings of a religious group that are generally accepted by that group |
ecclesiastical mode Gregorian mode church mode medieval mode | any of a system of modes used in Gregorian chants up until , derived historically from the Greek mode |
Old Church Slavonic Old Church Slavic Church Slavic Old Bulgarian | the Slavic language into which the Bible was translated in the th century |
religious music church music | genre of music composed for performance as part of religious ceremonies |
Kaplan Group Association of Islamic Groups and Communities Caliphate State | a Turkish terrorist group of fundamentalist Muslims with ties to al-Qaeda that operates in Germany, seeks the violent overthrow of the Turkish government and the establishment of an Islamic nation modeled on Iran |
authoritarian state authoritarian regime | a government that concentrates political power in an authority not responsible to the people |
church Christian church | one of the groups of Christians who have their own beliefs and forms of worship |
church | the body of people who attend or belong to a particular local church, our church is hosting a picnic next week |
Armenian Church Armenian Apostolic Orthodox Church | an independent Christian church established in Armenia since , was influenced by both Roman and Byzantine traditions |
Catholic Church | any of several churches claiming to have maintained historical continuity with the original Christian Church |
Roman Catholic Western Church Roman Catholic Church Church of Rome Roman Church | the Christian Church based in the Vatican and presided over by a pope and an episcopal hierarchy |
Nestorian Church | a Christian Church in the Middle East that followed Nestorianism, there is still a small Nestorian Church in Iraq |
Old Catholic Church | Catholic churches that broke away from the Roman Catholic Church in the th century |
Eastern Church Byzantine Church | the Catholic Church as it existed in the Byzantine Empire |
Orthodox Church Orthodox Catholic Church Eastern Orthodox Church Eastern Church Eastern Orthodox | derived from the Byzantine Church and adhering to Byzantine rites |
Greek Orthodox Church Greek Church | state church of Greece, an autonomous part of the Eastern Orthodox Church |
Russian Orthodox Church | an independent church with its own Patriarch, until it was the established church or Russia |
Uniat Church Uniate Church | any of several churches in eastern Europe or the Middle East that acknowledge papal authority but retain their own liturgy |
Coptic Church | the ancient Christian church of Egypt |
Protestant Church Protestant | the Protestant churches and denominations collectively |
Christian Church Disciples of Christ | a Protestant church that accepts the Bible as the only source of true Christian faith and practices baptism by immersion |
Anglican Church Anglican Communion Church of England | the national church of England (and all other churches in other countries that share its beliefs), has its see in Canterbury and the sovereign as its temporal head |
Episcopal Church Protestant Episcopal Church | United States church that is in communication with the see of Canterbury |
Church of Ireland | autonomous branch of the Church of England in Ireland |
Episcopal Church Episcopal Church of Scotland | an autonomous branch of the Anglican Communion in Scotland |
High Church High Anglican Church | a group in the Anglican Church that emphasizes the Catholic tradition (especially in sacraments and rituals and obedience to church authority) |