Search for: Church body
1761 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 …
1762 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.
1763 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DISSEVER.1 (Noah Webster)
… Catholic church; it dissevered Protestants from catholics.
1764 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.
1765 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 …
1766 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 …
1767 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. HERESY.2 (Noah Webster)
… established church, an opinion is deemed heresy, when it differs from that of the church. The Scriptures being the standard of faith, any opinion that is repugnant …
1768 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. HOST.10 (Noah Webster)
In the Romish church, the sacrifice of the mass, or the consecrated wafer, representing the body of Christ, or as the Catholics allege, transubstantiated into his own body.
1769 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. IMPANATION.1 (Noah Webster)
IMPANATION, n. The supposed substantial presence of the body and blood of Christ, with the substance of the bread and wine, after consecration, in the eucharist; a tenet of the Lutheran church; otherwise called consubstantiation.
1770 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. LENGTH.2 (Noah Webster)
1. The extent of anything material from end to end; the longest line which can be drawn through a body, parallel to its sides; as the length of a church or of a ship; the length of a rope or line.
1771 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MEMBER.5 (Noah Webster)
… the church.
1772 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. NAVE.3 (Noah Webster)
2. The middle or body of a church extending from the balluster or rail of the door, to the chief choir.
1773 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PRESBYTERY.1 (Noah Webster)
PRESBYTERY, n. A body of elders in the christian church.
1774 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PRESBYTERY.3 (Noah Webster)
… of churches within a certain district, and one ruling elder, a layman, from each parish, commissioned to represent the parish in conjunction with the minister …
1775 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PROUD.2 (Noah Webster)
… his church. He conceives that any thing excellent or valuable, in which he has a share, or to which he stands related, contributes to his own importance, and this …
1776 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. REAL.12 (Noah Webster)
Real presence, in the Romish church, the actual presence of the body and blood of Christ in the eucharist, or the conversion of the substance of the bread and wine into the real body and blood of Christ.
1777 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SECEDER.1 (Noah Webster)
SECEDER, n. One who secedes. In Scotland, the seceders are a numerous body of presbyterians who seceded from the communion of the established church, about the year 1733.
1778 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. STATE.12 (Noah Webster)
… terms church and state. In this case, state signifies the civil community or government only.
1779 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. TEMPLE.6 (Noah Webster)
3. A place in which the divine presence specially resides; the church as a collective body. Ephesians 2:21 .
1780 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. VISIBLE.6 (Noah Webster)
Visible church, in theology, the apparent church of Christ; the whole body of professed believers in Christ, as contradistinguished from the real or invisible church, consisting of sanctified persons.