单词 | church building |
释义 | church buildingn. 1. a. A building constructed for public Christian worship; = church n.1 1a. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > sanctuary or holy place > church or place of worship > [noun] churcheOE God's houseOE kirkc1175 temple1399 steeple1555 church building1605 steeple-house1644 shrine1645 Dominical1659 religion shop1811 1605 R. Buckland tr. St. Victor Memorable Hist. Persecution in Africke 174 He perceiued..church buyldings in very many places wasted by fyre. 1689 E. Bohun Contin. Hist. iii. 66 in tr. J. Sleidane Gen. Hist. Reformation of Church A Maxim..That the sure way to drive away the Rooks, was to pull down their Nests..was extended to all the Church Buildings. 1724 tr. P. Barwick Life J. Barwick 310 He should have discharg'd himself of several Repairs in the Church Buildings. 1797 T. Langley Hist. & Antiq. Desborough & Wycombe 3 There was dug up an entire stone window-frame of the fashion..of those in ancient church buildings. 1850 Jrnl. Proc. 66th Convent. Protestant Episcopal Church Pennsylvania 117 Since my last report the church building has been finished and consecrated. 1884 Christian World 12 June 442/5 A bishop of Antioch, deposed and excommunicated, chose to stick to the church-buildings. 1955 H. G. Leask Irish Churches & Monastic Buildings I. ii. 5 No trace remains of any pre-Patrician church building. 2009 Cathedral Music May 5/1 We lived in the parish of the Minster, often referred to as one of the finest Gothic church buildings in Europe. b. U.S. A building adjoining a church and used for meetings, etc. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > division of building (general) > other parts > [noun] > church house church house1327 Sabba-day house1876 church building1888 1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. II. civ. 577 Its new Church Building—prosperous Churches always have a building with a set of rooms for meetings. 1901 Montgomery County Law Reporter 17 129 The real contention of the defendant seems to be that they have a right to hold the Sunday-school in the main or audience-room of the new church building. 2. The construction of buildings for public Christian worship. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > sanctuary or holy place > construction or measurement > [noun] > construction kirklOE fabric1611 church building1659 1659 T. Fuller Appeal Iniured Innocence 25 This, though I confess it be no part of Church-Building, yet it is the clearing of the floore or Foundation thereof. a1684 T. Staveley Hist. Churches Eng. (1712) v. 65 The further Progress of Church Building in this Island. 1775 W. Hutchinson Spirit of Masonry 222 The rage of church-building had not contaminated all Europe as it did England. 1841 E. Miall in Nonconformist 1 449 Church-building might be dispensed with. 1870 Defiance (Ohio) Democrat 5 Mar. Collected funds for church building and appropriated it for private use. 1934 T. S. Eliot Rock ii. 70 I believe that..simplicity should be the keynote in churchbuilding. 2000 A. Hastings in A. Hastings et al. Oxf. Compan. Christian Thought 749/1 Baptism was by immersion and, when church building developed from the 4th century, free-standing baptisteries were given an important place. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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