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ADVENTIST |
Church member |
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PARISHIONER |
Church member |
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ABYSSINIAN |
A member of the Abyssinian Church. |
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MORMON |
Member of Church of Latter Day Saints |
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LATIN |
A member of the Roman Catholic Church. |
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ANGLICAN |
A member of the Church of England. |
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CHURCHMAN |
An Episcopalian, or a member of the Established Church
of England. |
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KIRKMAN |
A member of the Church of Scotland, as distinguished from
a member of another communion. |
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PRESBYTERIAN |
One who maintains the validity of ordination and
government by presbyters; a member of the Presbyterian church. |
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CANON |
A member of a cathedral chapter; a person who possesses a
prebend in a cathedral or collegiate church. |
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ANGLO-CATHOLIC |
A member of the Church of England who contends for
its catholic character; more specifically, a High Churchman. |
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COMMUNICANT |
One who partakes of, or is entitled to partake of, the
sacrament of the Lord's supper; a church member. |
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DISCIPLINE |
The enforcement of methods of correction against one
guilty of ecclesiastical offenses; reformatory or penal action toward a
church member. |
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UNIATE |
A member of the Greek Church, who nevertheless acknowledges
the supremacy of the Pope of Rome; one of the United Greeks. Also used
adjectively. |
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REGULAR |
A member of any religious order or community who has taken
the vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, and who has been solemnly
recognized by the church. |
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THOMEAN |
A member of the ancient church of Christians established
on the Malabar coast of India, which some suppose to have been
originally founded by the Apostle Thomas. |
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SUBDEACON |
One belonging to an order in the Roman Catholic Church,
next interior to the order of deacons; also, a member of a minor order
in the Greek Church. |
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HEAD |
The most prominent or important member of any organized body;
the chief; the leader; as, the head of a college, a school, a church, a
state, and the like. |
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SECTARY |
A sectarian; a member or adherent of a sect; a follower or
disciple of some particular teacher in philosophy or religion; one who
separates from an established church; a dissenter. |
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FATHER |
A dignitary of the church, a superior of a convent, a
confessor (called also father confessor), or a priest; also, the eldest
member of a profession, or of a legislative assembly, etc. |
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EPISCOPALIAN |
One who belongs to an episcopal church, or adheres to
the episcopal form of church government and discipline; a churchman;
specifically, in the... |
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LATITUDINARIAN |
...
Charles II., who adopted more liberal notions in respect to the
authority, government, and doctrines of the church than generally
prevailed.... |
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SECTARIAN |
...school,
denomination, or religious or philosophical party; one of a party in
religion which has separated itself from established church, or whi... |
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TRACTARIAN |
One of the writers of the Oxford tracts, called "Tracts
for the Times," issued during the period 1833-1841, in which series of
papers the sacra... |
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GLASSITE |
A member of a Scottish sect, founded in the 18th century
by John Glass, a minister of the Established Church of Scotland, who
taught that justi... |