| 释义 |
† churchship Obs.
[f. church n. + -ship.]
1. The status of a church, the being a church.
1645J. G[oodwin] Innoc. & Truth Triumphing 56 [They] cannot with safe conscience communicate together in Church⁓ship. 1653Gauden Hierasp. 91 A special mark of their true Churchship. a1716South Serm. John i. 11 (T.) The Jews were his own also by right of churchship.
2. An ecclesiastical organization or body.
1675Tullie Let. Baxter 14 And would you have us yield up the great Truths of the Gospel for fear of offending such Churchshipps as these [Papists, Socinians, Quakers]? |