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churchal

churchal adjective: of or relating to a church.

Adjective

churchal (comparative more churchal, superlative most churchal)

  1. Of or relating to a church.
    • A few, more churchal, trembled, fearful that the devil was playing his tricks upon them; […] When we had inspected each other,—he with a sort of careless sociability, we with a coy and very churchal questioning,—he said, when alone, to test the heart-blending, “Bro. Barrett, I see your inner life...1872, J[oseph] O[sgood] Barrett, The Spiritual Pilgrim: A Biography of James M[artin] Peebles, 3rd edition, Boston, Mass.: William White and Company, […], pages 46, 91, and 229
    • That it was a spirit, is quite certain, because sprits have done such things in innumerable instances, and are now doing them daily, and that it was not the Holy Ghost, according to the churchal definition, is also nearly certain, for the reason that we have never had any knowledge that such an...1881, Eugene Crowell, The Identity of Primitive Christianity and Modern Spiritualism, 2nd edition, volume II, New York, N.Y.: […] the Office of “The Two Worlds”, page 127

Examples of churchal in a sentence

  • Towne; […] Next to him come the moolahs and muftis, corresponding to churchal bishops, and then the ulemas, who are their priests.1872, J[oseph] O[sgood] Barrett, The Spiritual Pilgrim: A Biography of James M[artin] Peebles, 3rd edition, Boston, Mass.: William White...
  • […] the bodies of persons who thus die will not have a churchal interment, but will be devoured by beasts and birds; […]1890, W[illiam] J[oseph] Simmonite, W. J. Simmonite’s Complete Arcana of Astral Philosophy, or the Celestial Philosopher, Being...
  • The great mistakes of the present churchal influence, are.1983, Robley Edward Whitson, editor, The Shakers: Two Centuries of Spiritual Reflection, Paulist Press, →ISBN, page 325:

Forms of churchal

comparativemore churchal
superlativemost churchal

Origin of churchal

From church + -al.

Questions about churchal

What does churchal mean?
Churchal means of or relating to a church.
How do you use churchal in a sentence?
Towne; […] Next to him come the moolahs and muftis, corresponding to churchal bishops, and then the ulemas, who are their priests.
What part of speech is churchal?
Churchal is an adjective.

Words near churchal in the dictionary

  1. Church-Rosser property
  2. Church-Rosser theorem
  3. Church-Turing thesis
  4. church-yard
  5. church-yards
  6. churchal
  7. Churcham
  8. churchane
  9. churchanity
  10. churchbell
  11. churchbells

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