churchish

Adjective

churchish (comparative more churchish, superlative most churchish)

1. (rare) Like a church; (solidly or piously) Christian.
   • He does not embrace with the same churchish charity all of the poor, white as well as black, as Dr. King docs in demanding a "Bill of Rights for the Disadvantaged" — a federal government effort to compensate for deprivation and discrimination.1964, New South, volumes 19-20, Southern Regional Council, page 202
   • Two children, a boy and a girl in naught but their shirts and barefoot, walked behind the churchish crowd and watched with studious intent the behaviour of their children,[…]1983, Fierce, Fine World, Raduga Publishers, page 16

   Synonyms:

   churchical, churchlike, churchy, churchly, ecclesial, ecclesiastic, ecclesiastical

2. (comparative, rare) Participating in the world at large; ecumenical, mainstream, non-insular.
   • Simplistically put, churchish British national revivals compare to semi-churchish Australian revivals, to semi-churchish regional Canadian revivals, and un-churchish American national revivals.1997 February 17, Mark Hutchinson, “‘Up from Downunder’: An Australian View of Canadian Evangelicanism”, in Aspects of the Canadian Evangelical Experience, McGill-Queen's Press, →ISBN, page 24
   • In previous centuries, both the sectish and churchish styles of evangelicalism had been evident, but in different movements (like the Salvation Army versus evangelical Anglicans) or in the same movement at different times (like Methodism in the eighteenth century versus Methodism in the late...1998, John Gordon Stackhouse, Canadian Evangelicalism in the Twentieth Century: An Introduction to Its Character, Regent College Publishing, →ISBN, page 197