Church
21Church [3] — Church (spr. tschörtsch), 1) Sir Richard, griech. General, geb. 1785 in der Grafschaft Cork, gest. 20. März 1873 in Athen, trat 1800 in die britische Armee, nahm an den Expeditionen nach Ferrol, Malta und Ägypten teil, ging zum König Joachim… …
22Church — (Tschörtsch), Sir Richard, engl. Offizier, befehligte 1813 u. 1814 ein griech. Regiment im engl. Solde, wurde 1827 griech. Oberfeldherr, verlor aber das Treffen von Athen und errang erst im Jahre 1829 einige Erfolge im westl. Griechenland. Unter… …
23Church — Church, Frederik Edwin …
24church — *religion, denomination, sect, communion, creed, faith, cult, persuasion …
25Church — [chʉrch] Frederic Edwin 1826 1900; U.S. landscape painter …
26Church|il|li|an — «chur CHIHL ee uhn», adjective. of, having to do with, or resembling the life, politics, manner, or writing, of Sir Winston Churchill (1874 1965): »Churchillian rhetoric …
27church — /cherrch/, n. 1. a building for public Christian worship. 2. public worship of God or a religious service in such a building: to attend church regularly. 3. (sometimes cap.) the whole body of Christian believers; Christendom. 4. (sometimes cap.)… …
28church — noun 1 building where Christians go to worship ADJECTIVE ▪ local, parish, village (esp. BrE) VERB + CHURCH ▪ build ▪ consecrate, found …
29Church — Derived probably from the Greek kuriakon (i.e., the Lord s house ), which was used by ancient authors for the place of worship. In the New Testament it is the translation of the Greek word ecclesia, which is synonymous with the Hebrew kahal …
30Church — The Christian community. In the Graeco Roman world of the 1st cent., there were many religious guilds and societies, but the Christians took over the word ecclesia from the LXX, where it denotes the assembly of the people of Israel; but unlike… …
