Church
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
church/tʃɜːtʃ/
▶noun
- 1 a building used for public Christian worship.
- 2 (Church) a particular Christian organization with its own distinctive doctrines.
- 3 institutionalized religion as a political or social force: the separation of church and state.
– phrases
the Church Militant the body of living Christian believers, regarded as striving to combat evil on earth (contrasted with the Church Triumphant in heaven).
the Church Militant the body of living Christian believers, regarded as striving to combat evil on earth (contrasted with the Church Triumphant in heaven).
– origin OE cir(i)ce, cyr(i)ce, based on med. Gk kurikon, from Gk kuriakon (dōma) ‘Lord's (house)’, from kurios ‘master or lord’.
'Church' also found in these Oxford entries:
act of contrition
- advent
- age of reason
- Agnus Dei
- aisle
- All Saints' Day
- altar
- alto
- ambo
- ambulatory
- anamnesis
- anaphora
- anathema
- Anglican
- Anglo-Catholicism
- annunciation
- anoint
- anthem
- Antichrist
- antidisestablishmentarianism
- antiphonal
- apostolic succession
- apse
- archimandrite
- Armenian
- Ascension Day
- Ash Wednesday
- asperges
- attend
- aumbry
- authentic
- autocephalous
- auxiliary
- banns
- baptism
- baptistery
- barratry
- basilica
- bay
- beadle
- beatification
- beatify
- beatitude
- bell-ringing
- Benedictus
- benefice
- blessed
- box pew
- brass
- breviary
