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单词 church assembly
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church assembly
church assembly n. (a) an assembly (assembly n. 5a) of representatives of (a particular denomination of) the Christian Church; (b) (with capital initials) (a short title of) the National Assembly of the Church of England, a deliberative body with the power to pass measures (measure n. 20b) on any matter concerning the Church of England (now historical).The Church Assembly (sense (b)) was established in 1919 under the Church of England Assembly (Powers) Act. It was replaced by the General Synod (see General Synod n. at general adj. and n. Compounds 2) in 1970. Cf. national assembly n. 1.
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society > faith > church government > council > Church of England > [noun]
national assembly1591
church congress1836
church assembly1919
1566 R. Horne Answeare M. J. Fekenham f. 115v Their Churche assemblies were not to the encrease, but rather to the decrease of vertue in them selues.
1614 W. Bradshaw Unreasonablenesse of Separation sig. B Their Prelaticall or Episcopall office or Ministery is not the proper Ministery of any of our Church Assemblies.
1726 T. Shepherd Disc. Several Subj. 378 There must be order in church assemblies.
1883 Cent. Mag. Mar. 657/2 The Anti-Slavery party..came clamoring to the doors of missionary societies and church assemblies, demanding condign excommunication for all slave-holders.
1919 Act 9 & 10 Geo. V c. 76 §1 ‘The National Assembly of the Church of England’ (hereinafter called ‘the Church Assembly’).
1971 W. S. Gilchrist in R. T. Parsons Windows on Afr. 190 It was fairly common for government agents to audit at least some of the sessions of important church assemblies.
2004 Times (Nexis) 29 Sept. 66 From 1960 to 1980 Lockley was a diocesan proctor in the Convocation of Canterbury and a member of the Church Assembly and then the General Synod.
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