(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.
Tabernacle
Definition:
(n.) A slightly built or temporary habitation; especially, a tent.
(n.) A portable structure of wooden framework covered with curtains, which was carried through the wilderness in the Israelitish exodus, as a place of sacrifice and worship.
(n.) Hence, the Jewish temple; sometimes, any other place for worship.
(n.) Figuratively: The human body, as the temporary abode of the soul.
(n.) Any small cell, or like place, in which some holy or precious things was deposited or kept.
(n.) The ornamental receptacle for the pyx, or for the consecrated elements, whether a part of a building or movable.
(n.) A niche for the image of a saint, or for any sacred painting or sculpture.
(n.) Hence, a work of art of sacred subject, having a partially architectural character, as a solid frame resting on a bracket, or the like.
(n.) A tryptich for sacred imagery.
(n.) A seat or stall in a choir, with its canopy.
(n.) A boxlike step for a mast with the after side open, so that the mast can be lowered to pass under bridges, etc.
(v. i.) To dwell or reside for a time; to be temporary housed.
Example Sentences:
(1) • Armistead Maupin will be talking to John Mullan for the Guardian Book Club this evening at 6pm at The Tabernacle, 35 Powis Square, London W11.
(2) Amistead Maupin will be the guest at the Guardian Review Book Club at 6pm on 15 February at The Tabernacle, 35 Powis Square, London W11.
(3) He also challenged Robinson to condemn remarks by Pastor James McConnell, the founder of the Metropolitan Tabernacle church on the shores of Belfast Lough.
(4) For Eppinger's congregation at the church of God's Tabernacle of Faith church in a suburb of Cleveland, Sunday began with his weekly service in which he didn't mince his words.
(5) Denise Bullock, 53, was on the bus from God's Tabernacle of Faith to the polling station in downtown Cleveland.
(6) Pastor James McConnell, who last month sparked controversy with a sermon at his Metropolitan Tabernacle church on Belfast's Lough Shore, said on Monday he told the two injured men, aged 24 and 38, there was "no justification for such an attack on any individual or their home whatever their religion".
(7) "Homosexuality," says Pastor Mario Manyozo of the Word of Life Tabernacle Church in Malawi, "is against God's creation and is an evil act, since gays are possessed with demons."
(8) Justin and Jaden Ramos watched as around 500 police motorcycles revved past Christ Tabernacle Church in Queens.
(9) In the first attack, the ground-level office of the three-story Metro Tabernacle church was destroyed in a blaze set off by a firebomb thrown by attackers on motorcycles soon after midnight, police said.
(10) The Metropolitan Tabernacle – a mega-church that welcomes Northern Ireland's first minister, Peter Robinson , among its congregation – said: "A very profitable discussion took place about how the pastor has reached out to all sides of this community for over 60 years and he will continue to do so."
(11) One of the headliners was the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, though not all of its members were happy to perform.
(12) There's an additional poignancy to souls to the polls in Ohio this year that has made the congregation of God's Tabernacle of Faith take the drive to the polling station particularly personally.
(13) • Robert Harris will be in conversation with John Mullan at a Guardian book club event at 7pm on 15 October at the Tabernacle, London W11.
(14) He had Bible study books in his locker, which is rare for a police officer, but that goes to show you the type of man he was,” said Sergio Centa, an NYPD captain, before entering Christ Tabernacle Church.
(15) Inside the God's Tabernacle of Faith Church in Cleveland, Ohio.
(16) It destroyed Whitefield’s Tabernacle (since rebuilt on a smaller scale and today housing the American International Church), killing at least nine and damaging the surrounding buildings, many of which were never redeveloped.
(17) Date: Saturday 15 February Time: 6pm (doors open at 5.30pm) Venue: The Tabernacle, 35 Powis Square, London W11 2AY Tickets: £12 Book tickets It is almost four decades since Armistead Maupin's much-loved Tales of the City saga began its life as a newspaper serial in the San Francisco Chronicle.
(18) There are no stained-glass windows and no tabernacle.
(19) Keith Waterhouse , Fleet Street columnist, wit, novelist, playwright and waspish social commentator who once described himself as "a tinroof tabernacle radical", has died at his home in London, aged 80, his family said .
(20) The event takes place on Thursday 5 February from 7-10pm at the Tabernacle, London, W11 with tickets at £15.