churchical

Adjective

churchical (comparative more churchical, superlative most churchical)

1. (informal) Pertaining to or characteristic of church; ecclesiastical.
   • When I rode through the streets of your giant-like town (applause), and when I saw the many churches which heave their towers up stairs (cheers), I thought, the English are a very churchical people (loud cheers). I therefore wonder not that you also are an educational people, for religion is the...[1863, “A Dutchman’s Difficulties with the English Language, as Experienced by Mynheer Steven van Brammelendam”, in Donald McLeod, editor, Good Words, volume IV, London: Alexander Strahan and Co....
   • First of all, very many ages long the churchical dogmas taught that experiencing lust would bs a sin and sexual intercourse was only tolerated when the aim would be propagation.1982, Darshana International: An International Quarterly of Philosophy, Psychology, Psychical Research, Religion, Mysticism & Sociology, volume 22, Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh, India: J. P. Atreya...

   Synonyms:

   churchish, churchlike, churchy, churchly, ecclesial, ecclesiastic, ecclesiastical

   Antonyms:

   unecclesiastical

2. (Jamaica) Belonging to a style of Reggae music that reflects a spiritual sensibility.
   • To sum up, Rastafarian music has developed from the traditional chanting and drumming of predominantly "churchical" type to more "secular kind of projection of philosophy, not just confined to chanting but to popular, vernacular, more funky style … and of more general awareness of what is happening...1984, Yoshiko S. Nagashima, Rastafarian Music in Contemporary Jamaica: A Study of Socioreligious Music of the Rastafarian Movement in Jamaica (Performance in Culture; no. 3), Tokyo: Institute for the...
   • In Rasta music there is the churchical (religious music) and the earthical (music for entertainment). In chants and churchical songs, the accent of the lifeline ridim is on the first and third beat, while in earthical songs the accent is on the second and fourth beat.2000, Stephen Foehr, Jamaican Warriors: Reggae, Roots & Culture, London: Sanctuary Publ., →ISBN, page 95

   Antonyms:

   heartical

3. (Jamaica, Rastafari) Pertaining to the strain of Rastafarian culture that emphasizes a traditional theocracy.
   • Ethiopia, the Saviour of the world. Ethiopia as an Empire with hundreds of Ethnic groups with their religious beliefs centered around the House of David; these traditions and customs were taken to Jamaica and were kept alive by underground secret society with the churchical order dealing with...1991, E[verton] S. P. McPherson, Rastafari and Politics: Sixty Years of a Developing Cultural Ideology: A Sociology of Development Perspective (H.I.M. Centenary Celebration Work; no. 1), Clarendon...
   • These more formal groups [of Rastafarians] fall into two categories: "churchical" and "statical." The churchical are so designated because of their emphasis on the development of Rastafarian religious culture and behavior and on the cultivation of African cultural consciousness and lifestyle....1998, Ennis B[arrington] Edmonds, “The Structure and Ethos of Rastafari”, in Nathaniel Samuel Murrell, William David Spencer, Adrian Anthony McFarlane, editors, Chanting down Babylon: The Rastafari...