(n.) A formally organized body of Christian believers worshiping together.
(n.) A body of Christian believers, holding the same creed, observing the same rites, and acknowledging the same ecclesiastical authority; a denomination; as, the Roman Catholic church; the Presbyterian church.
(n.) The collective body of Christians.
(n.) Any body of worshipers; as, the Jewish church; the church of Brahm.
(n.) The aggregate of religious influences in a community; ecclesiastical influence, authority, etc.; as, to array the power of the church against some moral evil.
(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; as, the churching of women.
Example Sentences:
(1) Typological and archaeological investigations indicate that the church building represents originally the hospital facility for the lay brothers of the monastery, which according to the chronicle of the monastery was built in the beginning of the 14th century.
(2) Atmaca, who belongs to the Gregorian-Armenian church in Istanbul, said that he nevertheless holds the current pontiff in high regard.
(3) In later years, the church built a business empire that included the Washington Times newspaper, the New Yorker Hotel in Manhattan, Bridgeport University in Connecticut, as well as a hotel and a car plant in North Korea.
(4) Living by the "Big River" as a child, Cash soaked up work songs, church music, and country & western from radio station WMPS in Memphis, or the broadcasts from Nashville's Grand Ole Opry on Friday and Saturday evenings.
(5) Part of his initial lump sum will be donated to a fund to replace a hall destroyed by fire in an arson attack four years ago at St Luke’s Church in Newton Poppleford.
(6) Alfred Liyolo, 71, one of Congo’s leading sculptors , sold several bronzes to the palace in Gbadolite and designed a church and tomb for Mobutu’s first wife; all were lost or destroyed in the looting.
(7) A federal judge struck down Utah's same-sex marriage ban Friday in a decision that brings a nationwide shift toward allowing gay marriage to a conservative state where the Mormon church has long been against it.
(8) Another is that the churches were in very densely populated areas and the police did not want to go in and create more damage."
(9) He is also an active member of the Unitarian church, having returned to religion after the birth of his children.
(10) "My future was probably to become an officer [running my own church] and go to London to the William Booth College," she says.
(11) The church was the Cypriot Orthodox led by Archbishop Makarios.
(12) McDaniel supported his 2003 election as bishop of New Hampshire, which, caused conservative Episcopalians in the US to break away and was the subject of intense debate in the worldwide Anglican church.
(13) But Detre declined to comment on a report on the Guido Fawkes website that Westminster Advisers, run by the Labour supporter and former councillor Dominic Church, organised a cross-party meeting at the end of 2010 which was shown the Crosby Textor research .
(14) Is he saying that the Orthodox church is also subject to public spending cuts?
(15) In the target areas, church and community members will sponsor health fairs and discussions of adolescent pregnancy at church and at parent-teacher association meetings.
(16) Already the demand for such a liturgy is growing among clergy, who are embarrassed by having to withhold the church's official support from so many of their own flock who are in civil partnerships.
(17) Officers across the country are dealing with hundreds of cases involving abuse in the past in institutions including schools, churches and children's homes and a number of allegations relating to high profile people.
(18) The Rt Rev Stephen Lowe, the Bishop of Hulme, who speaks for the Anglican church on urban life and faith, is less sanguine.
(19) A lot of our people had to come to make sure the church was kept safe and to get the children out safely."
(20) The incident in Aswan that sparked Sunday's protest was an attack on a church that attackers claimed was being built illegally.
Rota
Definition:
(n.) An ecclesiastical court of Rome, called also Rota Romana, that takes cognizance of suits by appeal. It consists of twelve members.
(n.) A short-lived political club established in 1659 by J.Harrington to inculcate the democratic doctrine of election of the principal officers of the state by ballot, and the annual retirement of a portion of Parliament.
(n.) A species of zither, played like a guitar, used in the Middle Ages in church music; -- written also rotta.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Cape Ray, a 648ft converted car ferry, has been waiting at the Spanish port of Rota for four months for the extraction of chemical weapons from Syria to be completed.
(2) The removal of financial penalties for trusts that overwork their doctors would see us lose our only safeguard against unsafe rotas.
(3) Rota virus and Candida albicans were the Commonest identified organisms in the stools of the PEM cases, they were detected in 52% and 38.2% of cases respectively while 25% of WNC had rota virus in their stool and non of them had Candida (P less than 0.02).
(4) After hauling the food back to the cottage, they drew up a rota for the cooking, with some preparing breakfast for the group, and others sharing the duties for lunch and dinner.
(5) In 2015 the service was short of 50,000 staff, a 6% vacancy rate, and was becoming increasingly reliant on expensive agency staff to plug gaps in rotas.
(6) At high doses it produced fall out in the rota-rod test.
(7) A computer generated graphical display of the rota was used to facilitate leave planning.
(8) Chronic understaffing in hospitals means that trainees are typically being asked to work six extra shifts a month to cover for gaps in rotas, the survey found.
(9) In a statement it said its "safety record, incidents, complaints, response times to patients and rota fills all indicate a safely run service.
(10) He denied that: there is a fear factor ingrained into the whole culture of Sports Direct; that some shop workers are told they can be dismissed for three misdemeanours; that workers sometimes feel under pressure to mislead customers and the commission scheme only incentivises them to sell Sports Direct brands; that finish times on rotas are not adhered to; that there is inadequate training and that the company has been paying shop workers less than the legal minimum.
(11) 'I feel very conflicted': junior doctors and colleagues on the five-day strike Read more As the junior doctors point out, most NHS services are available at the weekend and most doctors work weekends as part of their rotas.
(12) Furthermore, PCP pups had difficulty performing the rota-rod task at 4 weeks and exhibited a decrease in sensitivity to challenged PCP at 5 weeks (female).
(13) Slidex Rota-Kit 2 was more sensitive and specific than the other tests, and would thus appear to be a practical and accurate rotavirus assay for use in routine laboratory work.
(14) The radii of curvature (R) of the horizontal (Rh), anterior (Ra) and posterior (Rp) semicircular canals were measured by a new technique (called ROTA) for cat, guinea pig and man.
(15) There are fewer of them than during the week, because there are no routine outpatient clinics or operating lists, but they all take their turn on the rota to cover emergency work and deal with inpatients.
(16) Conventional toothbrushes and Rota-Dent brushes used without dentifrice gave minimal abrasion on the dentin.
(17) Let them be more than just a uniform that turns up, ticks their rota and disappears until teatime.
(18) Local rotas for out of hours work are a good compromise between meeting the needs of patients and doctors in deprived areas, but there are financial implications for inner cities.
(19) After immunizing 8-month pregnant Holstein cows with human rotavirus, Wa strain, cow colostrum containing neutralizing antibody to human rotavirus, designated as Rota colostrum, was obtained.
(20) The action is likely to lead to operations being cancelled and hospitals having to hire temporary staff to fill gaps in rotas.