Church的意思|Church的解释-里氏词典

church [tʃɚtʃ]

n. 教堂, 礼拜, 教会

vt. 使人接受宗教仪式

a. 教堂的

I'm just going to the church to see the priest.
我正要去教堂去见见牧师。
The Church has a duty to condemn violence.
基督徒有责任谴责暴力。
Lying north of the church is a girls' senior high school.
位于这座教堂以北的是一所女子高中。

church

[ noun ]

one of the groups of Christians who have their own beliefs and forms of worship

<noun.group>

a place for public (especially Christian) worship

<noun.artifact>

the church was empty

a service conducted in a house of worship

<noun.act>

don't be late for church

the body of people who attend or belong to a particular local church

<noun.group>

our church is hosting a picnic next week

[ verb ]

perform a special church rite or service for

<verb.motion>

church a woman after childbirth

Church \Church\ (ch[^u]rch), n. [OE. chirche, chireche, cherche,
Scot. kirk, from AS. circe, cyrice; akin to D. kerk, Icel.
kirkja, Sw. kyrka, Dan. kirke, G. kirche, OHG. chirihha; all
fr. Gr. kyriako`n the Lord's house, fr. kyriako`s concerning
a master or lord, fr. ky`rios master, lord, fr. ky^ros power,
might; akin to Skr. [,c][=u]ra hero, Zend. [,c]ura strong,
OIr. caur, cur, hero. Cf. {Kirk}.]
1. A building set apart for Christian worship.

2. A Jewish or heathen temple. [Obs.] --Acts xix. 37.

3. A formally organized body of Christian believers
worshiping together. ``When they had ordained them elders
in every church.'' --Acts xiv. 23.

4. A body of Christian believers, holding the same creed,
observing the same rites, and acknowledging the same
ecclesiastical authority; a denomination; as, the Roman
Catholic church; the Presbyterian church.

5. The collective body of Christians.

6. Any body of worshipers; as, the Jewish church; the church
of Brahm.

7. The aggregate of religious influences in a community;
ecclesiastical influence, authority, etc.; as, to array
the power of the church against some moral evil.

Remember that both church and state are properly the
rulers of the people, only because they are their
benefactors. --Bulwer.

Note: Church is often used in composition to denote something
belonging or relating to the church; as, church
authority; church history; church member; church music,
etc.

{Apostolic church}. See under {Apostolic}.

{Broad church}. See {Broad Church}.

{Catholic church} or {Universal church}, the whole body of
believers in Christ throughout the world.

{Church of England}, or {English church}, the Episcopal
church established and endowed in England by law.

{Church living}, a benefice in an established church.

{Church militant}. See under {Militant}.

{Church owl} (Zo["o]l.), the white owl. See {Barn owl}.

{Church rate}, a tax levied on parishioners for the
maintenance of the church and its services.

{Church session}. See under {Session}.

{Church triumphant}. See under {Triumphant}.

{Church work}, work on, or in behalf of, a church; the work
of a particular church for the spread of religion.

{Established church}, the church maintained by the civil
authority; a state church.

Church \Church\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Churched}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Churching}.]
To bless according to a prescribed form, or to unite with in
publicly returning thanks in church, as after deliverance
from the dangers of childbirth; as, the churching of women.

"The results are highly encouraging," said Auxiliary Bishop James T. McHugh of Newark, N.J., director of the church's Diocesan Development Program for Natural Family Planning.
A Roman Catholic priest who celebrated his last Mass as an inner-city pastor said he saw a new beginning in the merger of his church with another one closed by the Detroit Archdiocese.
Guerrillas armed with assault rifles killed a West German priest when he tried to rescue another missionary who was being attacked with a hatchet, a church spokesman said Wednesday.
The nation's church leaders met 30 years ago in an attempt to forge a united front to challenge apartheid, but the agreement collapsed when the Dutch Reformed Church rejected it.
Manuel Antonio Noriega, and sources today said the Roman Catholic church would issue its harshest denunciation yet of the military strongman.
In the church meeting, Mr. Probert asks the president of the project's tenants' association, a slim nervous woman, to ask the borough council to kick out the drug dealers.
Curtis Handson, a church maintenance worker in Prairie Village, said he had no idea he had a half brother he had not met.
In the past, Glemp has used the feast day sermon as an occasion to deliver major Polish church policy statements.
Perhaps abortion shouldn't be used as a birth controller, but then, neither should Mr. Lawler, the state or the church.
The play is a 35-minute monologue by a cardinal who is being treated for alcoholism by the church after he kills the woman.
The core volunteers are aided by pueblo residents old and young, who gather when they can at the adobe-making site a mile away from the church to help with anything from loading materials to cooking.
The 16-member council that governs this town of 40,000 declared von Wernich unwelcome and last week asked the church to remove him.
Under questioning from her attorney, William G. Schick of Moline, Ms. St. Charles said she wasn't trying to block the investigation, but was concerned that investigators may have given false information about the church to members.
The swim club's pool policy became the talk of the town, though, after it refused to admit the black church members who were part of a group of 66 who had spent the day renovating a dilapidated home.
He was born into the church, but he said few are, only about 10 percent.
Vatican spokesmen said John Paul was reflecting concerns of Indonesia's Catholic bishops about two proposed laws the church considers unconstitutional.
Lawyers for the family and the church won't discuss the dollar figure but say it is less than the German foundation originally agreed to pay for the single manuscript.
Two of the Vatican's highest officials met with clergymen of an underground Catholic church Friday in the first official contact since Josef Stalin crushed the church more than 40 years ago.
Two of the Vatican's highest officials met with clergymen of an underground Catholic church Friday in the first official contact since Josef Stalin crushed the church more than 40 years ago.
First a brass choir proceeded from the main door of the church down the nave, through the roodscreen, to the altar, its solemn fanfare reechoing in the shadowy air.
The bishops did not take a stand on whether penalties should be imposed, but several Catholic leaders said the church should discuss the possibility and action has been taken in some dioceses.
It is the first time in church history for 117 to be elevated at one time, he said.
The church has been banned since 1946.
It was believed to be the first time the church of the Holy Sepulcher closed its doors in 800 years.
Thousands cheered and people shouted "Long Live the King!" when Otto von Hapsburg and other members of the family left a church Monday after a Mass for his mother Zita, the last queen of Hungary.
The Church Commissioners, who are responsible for the church's main investments, have warned that the proportion of clergy stipends met from investment income will decline from 45 per cent to as little as 30 per cent by 1995.
Mr. Mugabe's government isn't so clearly bent on destroying the church at this time as it is on using the church.
Mr. Mugabe's government isn't so clearly bent on destroying the church at this time as it is on using the church.
The church's stand on abortion has drawn more attention recently as Catholic officials have told public officials who support abortion rights that they might be denied communion.
He regarded church schools as an extension of religious freedom.

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