Search for: Church body
1441 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ADESSENARIANS.2 (Noah Webster)
In church history, a sect who hold the real presence of Christ’s body in the eucharist, but not by transubstantiation. They differ however as to this presence; some holding the body of Christ to be in the bread; others, about the bread.
1442 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ADIPOCERE.2 (Noah Webster)
… the Church des Innocens, when it was removed in 1787. It is speedily produced, when the body is immersed in running water.
1443 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. APATHY.2 (Noah Webster)
… the church, the christians adopted the term to express a contempt of earthly concerns.
1444 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. APOLLINARIANS.1 (Noah Webster)
… , in Church history, a sect, deriving their name from Apollinaris, bishop of Laodicea, in the 4th Century, who denied the proper humanity of Christ; maintaining …
1445 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. BELL.2 (Noah Webster)
… hollow body, used for making sounds. Its constituent parts are a barrel or hollow body, enlarged or expanded at one end, an ear or cannon by which it is hung to …
1446 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. BISHOP.9 (Noah Webster)
… body voting separately. Before a bishop can be consecrated, he must receive a testimonial of approbation from the General Convention of the church; or …
1447 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. BODY.8 (Noah Webster)
5. A collective mass; a number of individuals or particulars united; as the body of mankind. Christians united or the Church is called the body, of which each Christian is a member, and Christ the head. 1 Corinthians 12:12-27 .
1448 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. BROWNISM.1 (Noah Webster)
BROWNISM, n. The doctrines or religious creed of the Brownists, who maintained that any body of professing Christians united under one pastor, or communing together, constitute a church independent of any other.
1449 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CHOIR.5 (Noah Webster)
4. In nunneries, a large hall adjoining to the body of the church, separated by a grate, where the nuns sing the office.
1450 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CHURCH.3 (Noah Webster)
2. The collective body of Christians, or of those who profess to believe in Christ, and acknowledge him to be the Savior of mankind. In this sense, the church is sometimes called the Catholic or Universal Church.
1451 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CITY.3 (Noah Webster)
… cathedral church; but this is not always the fact.
1452 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CLERGY.2 (Noah Webster)
1. The body of men set apart, and consecrated, by due ordination, to the service of God, in the christian church; the body of ecclesiastics, in distinction from the laity.
1453 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. COMMUNION.7 (Noah Webster)
3. The body of Christians who have one common faith and discipline. The three grand communions into which the Christian church is divided, are those of the Greek, the Romish and the Protestant churches.
1454 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CONGREGATIONALISM.1 (Noah Webster)
CONGREGATIONALISM, n. Ecclesiastical government in the hands of each church, as an independent body.
1455 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CORPORATION.1 (Noah Webster)
… cathedral church, the stockholders of a bank or insurance company, etc. A corporation sole consists of one person only and his successors, as a king or a bishop …
1456 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CORPULENT.2 (Noah Webster)
Corpus Christi. [Body of Christ.] A festival of the church of England, kept on the next Thursday after Trinity-Sunday, in honor of the Eucharist.
1457 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DISSEVER.1 (Noah Webster)
… Catholic church; it dissevered Protestants from catholics.
1458 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. EXCLUDE.3 (Noah Webster)
2. To hinder from entering or admission; to shut out; as, one body excludes another from occupying the same space. The church ought to exclude immoral men from the communion.
1459 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. EXTRAVAGANTS.1 (Noah Webster)
… . In church history, certain decretal epistles, or constitutions of the popes, which were published after the Clementines, and not at first arranged and digested …
1460 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. GENERAL.11 (Noah Webster)
… whole body, in fact or by representation. In Scotland, it is the whole church convened by its representatives. In America, a legislature is sometimes called …