church

Meaning

Noun

1. A Christian house of worship; a building where Christian religious services take place.
2. Christians collectively seen as a single spiritual community; Christianity; Christendom.
3. A local group of people who follow the same Christian religious beliefs, local or general.
4. A particular denomination of Christianity.
5. Christian worship held at a church; service.
6. Organized religion in general or a specific religion considered as a political institution.
7. (informal) Any religious group or place of worship; a temple.
8. (obsolete) Assembly.

Verb

1. To conduct a religious service for (a woman after childbirth, or a newly married couple).
2. 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 36
3. 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 36:
   Nor did it [the Church] accept that the woman should stay indoors until she had been churched.
4. To educate someone religiously, as in in a church.

Intj

Expressing strong agreement.

Pronounced as (IPA)

/t͡ʃɜːt͡ʃ/

Etymology

From Middle English chirche, from Old English ċiriċe (“church”), from Proto-West Germanic *kirikā, an early borrowing of Ancient Greek κυριακόν (kuriakón), neuter form of κυριακός (kuriakós, “belonging to the lord”), from κύριος (kúrios, “ruler, lord”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱewh₁- (“to swell, spread out, be strong, prevail”).
additional etymological information
For vowel evolution, see bury. Ancient Greek κυριακόν (kuriakón) was used of houses of Christian worship since circa 300 CE, especially in the East, though it was less common in this sense than ἐκκλησία (ekklēsía, “congregation”) or βασιλική (basilikḗ, “royal thing”). An example of the direct Greek-to-Germanic progress of many Christian words, possibly via the Goths; it was probably used by West Germanic people in their pre-Christian period. Cognate with Scots kirk (“church”), West Frisian tsjerke (“church”), Saterland Frisian Säärke (“church”), Dutch kerk (“church”), German Kirche (“church”), Danish kirke (“church”), Swedish kyrka (“church”), Norwegian Bokmål kirke, Norwegian Nynorsk kyrkje (“church”), and Icelandic kirkja (“church”). Also picked up by Slavic, via Old High German chirihha (compare Old Church Slavonic црькꙑ (crĭky), Bulgarian църква (cǎrkva), Russian це́рковь (cérkovʹ)). Romance and Celtic languages use descendants of Latin ecclēsia.

Sentences

Maybe the church , with the sycamore growing from within , had been haunted .

A passage leads from the north side of the church to the vicarage .

Crampton donated a clock as a personal gift to the church .

The main point of interest is the Romanesque abbey church of " San Michele Arcangelo".

" The Cross " is a local booklet produced monthly by the Anglican church .