Word Meanings - PENTECOSTALS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Offerings formerly made to the parish priest, or to the mother church, at Pentecost. Shipley.

Related words: (words related to PENTECOSTALS)

• PRIESTLIKE
  Priestly. B. Jonson.
• CHURCHLINESS
  Regard for the church.
• CHURCHLIKE
  Befitting a church or a churchman; becoming to a clergyman. Shak.
• MOTHER-OF-PEARL
  The hard pearly internal layer of several kinds of shells, esp. of pearl oysters, river mussels, and the abalone shells; nacre. See Pearl.
• FORMERLY
  In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore.
• MOTHER'S DAY
  A day appointed for the honor and uplift of motherhood by the loving remembrance of each person of his mother through the performance of some act of kindness, visit, tribute, or letter. The founder of the day is Anna Jarvis, of Philadelphia, who
• 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.
• MOTHERING
  A rural custom in England, of visiting one's parents on Midlent Sunday, -- supposed to have been originally visiting the mother church to make offerings at the high altar.
• CHURCH MODES
  The modes or scales used in ancient church music. See Gregorian.
• MOTHERLESS
  Destitute of a mother; having lost a mother; as, motherless children.
• PRIESTING
  The office of a priest. Milton.
• MOTHER-OF-THYME
  An aromatic plant ; -- called also wild thyme.
• PENTECOSTALS
  Offerings formerly made to the parish priest, or to the mother church, at Pentecost. Shipley.
• CHURCHSHIP
  State of being a church. South.
• PENTECOSTY
  A troop of fifty soldiers in the Spartan army; -- called also pentecostys. Jowett .
• CHURCHMANLY
  Pertaining to, or becoming, a churchman. Milman.
• MOTHERLINESS
  The state or quality of being motherly.
• PENTECOSTER
  An officer in the Spartan army commanding fifty men. Mitford.
• SMOTHER
  Etym: 1. To destroy the life of by suffocation; to deprive of the air necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to prevent breathing; to suffocate; as, to smother a child. 2. To affect as by suffocation; to stife; to deprive of air by a thick
• UNMOTHERED
  Deprived of a mother; motherless.
• EEL-MOTHER
  The eelpout.
• STEPMOTHER
  The wife of one's father by a subsequent marriage.
• HIGH-CHURCHMAN
  One who holds high-church principles.