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churchdom

noun

Etymology

From church + -dom.

  1. derived from *ḱewh₁-✻
  2. derived from κυριακόν
  3. inherited from *kirikā✻
  4. inherited from ċiriċe
  5. inherited from chirche
  6. suffixed as churchdom — “church + dom”

Definitions

  1. The institution, government, or authority of a church.

    • Whatsoever Church pretendeth to a new beginning, pretendeth at the same time to a new Churchdome, and whatsoever is so new is none.
    • When a preacher knows that, if he should be turned from his church to-morrow, there are other paying fields of activity for him, he is not going to bow before any of the petty or the strong bosses of churchdom.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA