(n.) One of the officers (usually two) in an Episcopal church, whose duties vary in different dioceses, but always include the provision of what is necessary for the communion service.
(n.) A clay tobacco pipe, with a long tube.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Church Times reported that John Secker, churchwarden of St Oswald's Church, Lythe, in Whitby, wrote to Dr Sentamu on 28 November to protest against the move and to complain that many people felt "aggrieved and overlooked" by it.
(2) The ungenial contempt of more secular Etonians is nicely captured by an entry in Alan Clark's diaries about Michael Alison, a Tory politician who was also a churchwarden at HTB: "Saintly but useless.
(3) Those glum doomsayers, prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu , defence chief Ehud Barak, and president Shimon Peres , are frantically ringing alarm bells like a trio of demented churchwardens.
(4) North's stance on women in the church had angered many in the archdeaconery of Cleveland, with one churchwarden complaining that the choice of a third successive traditionalist as bishop of Whitby had left those in favour of women's ordination feeling "puzzled, dismayed and very disappointed".
Vestry
Definition:
(n.) A room appendant to a church, in which sacerdotal vestments and sacred utensils are sometimes kept, and where meetings for worship or parish business are held; a sacristy; -- formerly called revestiary.
(n.) A parochial assembly; an assembly of persons who manage parochial affairs; -- so called because usually held in a vestry.
(n.) A body, composed of wardens and vestrymen, chosen annually by a parish to manage its temporal concerns.
Example Sentences:
(1) As previously described with other fluoroquinolones (D. Raoult, M. Drancourt, and G. Vestris, Antimicrob.
(2) We used the shell-vial technique (D. Raoult, G. Vestris, and M. Enea, J. Clin.
(3) I had written other parts of the book in some uncomfortable places: the cold cobwebbed vestry of my parents'-in-law's local church, to which my mother-in-law had the key; the attic of another, earlier house whose stairs were so narrow for my increasingly pregnant body that it seemed possible I might one day get permanently stuck up there.
(4) They charged their mobile phones there and we were taking hot water over to the vestry and to people's flats, people who had young children.
(5) The ancient church has a 19th-century vestry whose walls are lined from floor to ceiling with thousands of cockle shells, the pilgrim emblem of St James.