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Word Meanings - CONFORMIST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who conforms or complies; esp., one who conforms to the Church of England, or to the Established Church, as distinguished from a dissenter or nonconformist. A cheeful conformist to your judgment. Jer.Taylor.

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  • JUDGMENT
    The final award; the last sentence. Note: Judgment, abridgment, acknowledgment, and lodgment are in England sometimes written, judgement, abridgement, acknowledgement, and lodgement. Note: Judgment is used adjectively in many self-explaining
  • CHURCHLINESS
    Regard for the church.
  • CHURCHLIKE
    Befitting a church or a churchman; becoming to a clergyman. Shak.
  • CHURCH
    AS. circe, cyrice; akin to D. kerk, Icel. kirkja, Sw. kyrka, Dan. kirke, G. kirche, OHG. chirihha; all fr. Gr. ç'd4ra hero, Zend. çura 1. A building set apart for Christian worship. 2. A Jewish or heathen temple. Acts xix. 37. 3. A formally
  • CHURCHYARD
    The ground adjoining a church, in which the dead are buried; a cemetery. Like graves in the holy churchyard. Shak. Syn. -- Burial place; burying ground; graveyard; necropolis; cemetery; God's acre.
  • CHURCH-BENCH
    A seat in the porch of a church. Shak.
  • CHURCH MODES
    The modes or scales used in ancient church music. See Gregorian.
  • CONFORMIST
    One who conforms or complies; esp., one who conforms to the Church of England, or to the Established Church, as distinguished from a dissenter or nonconformist. A cheeful conformist to your judgment. Jer.Taylor.
  • CHURCHSHIP
    State of being a church. South.
  • NONCONFORMIST
    One who does not conform to an established church; especially, one who does not conform to the established church of England; a dissenter.
  • CHURCHMANLY
    Pertaining to, or becoming, a churchman. Milman.
  • ESTABLISHMENTARIAN
    One who regards the Church primarily as an establishment formed by the State, and overlooks its intrinsic spiritual character. Shipley.
  • ESTABLISH
    L. stabilire, fr. stabilis firm, steady, stable. See Stable, a., - 1. To make stable or firm; to fix immovably or firmly; to set (a thing) in a place and make it stable there; to settle; to confirm. So were the churches established in the faith.
  • DISTINGUISHABLE
    1. Capable of being distinguished; separable; divisible; discernible; capable of recognition; as, a tree at a distance is distinguishable from a shrub. A simple idea being in itself uncompounded . . . is not distinguishable into different ideas.
  • DISTINGUISH
    1. To make distinctions; to perceive the difference; to exercise discrimination; -- with between; as, a judge distinguishes between cases apparently similar, but differing in principle. 2. To become distinguished or distinctive; to make one's self
  • DISTINGUISHMENT
    Observation of difference; distinction. Graunt.
  • DISSENTERISM
    The spirit or principles of dissenters. Ed. Rev.
  • CHURCHISM
    Strict adherence to the forms or principles of some church organization; sectarianism.
  • TAYLOR-WHITE PROCESS
    A process (invented about 1899 by Frederick W. Taylor and Maunsel B. White) for giving toughness to self-hardening steels. The steel is heated almost to fusion, cooled to a temperature of from 700º to 850º C. in molten lead, further cooled in
  • DISTINGUISHABLY
    So as to be distinguished.
  • CONTRADISTINGUISH
    To distinguish by a contrast of opposite qualities. These are our complex ideas of soul and body, as contradistinguished. Locke.
  • INDISTINGUISHABLE
    Not distinguishable; not capable of being perceived, known, or discriminated as separate and distinct; hence, not capable of being perceived or known; as, in the distance the flagship was indisguishable; the two copies were indisguishable in form
  • PREESTABLISH
    To establish beforehand.
  • DISESTABLISHMENT
    1. The act or process of unsettling or breaking up that which has been established; specifically, the withdrawal of the support of the state from an established church; as, the disestablishment and disendowment of the Irish Church by
  • UNCONFORMIST
    A nonconformist.
  • INDISTINGUISHING
    Making no difference; indiscriminative; impartial; as, indistinguishing liberalities. Johnson.
  • HIGH-CHURCHMAN
    One who holds high-church principles.
  • BROAD CHURCH
    A portion of the Church of England, consisting of persons who claim to hold a position, in respect to doctrine and fellowship, intermediate between the High Church party and the Low Church, or evangelical, party. The term has been applied
  • LOW-CHURCHISM
    The principles of the low-church party.
  • HIGH-CHURCH
    Of or pertaining to, or favoring, the party called the High Church, or their doctrines or policy. See High Church, under High, a.

 

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