churchlier

Adjective

churchly (comparative churchlier, superlative churchliest)

1. Pertaining to or relating to the church, its government, forms, or ceremonies; ecclesiastical.
   • [...] upon getting their hearts right in the sight of God, confident, meanwhile, that then all churchly things would not only be conserved, but gathered into right form.1890, Jens Christian Jensson, American Lutheran biographies

   Synonyms:

   churchical, churchlike, churchish, churchy, ecclesial, ecclesiastic, ecclesiastical

2. Devoted to, or inclined to attach great importance to, the order and ritual of a particular section of the Christian church.
   • And in the Smiths of Stratford, in Suffolk, of whom we would now discourse, a middle class family of no great opulence, we have signs of the churchly instinct passing down from generation to generation, [...]1890, Suffolk Institute of Archaeology, East Anglian
3. In accordance with ecclesiastical standards or ceremonies; appropriate for or befitting a church.
   • churchly music
4. Characteristic of a church; churchy.

   Synonyms:

   churchical