| 单词 | church people |
| 释义 | > as lemmaschurch people church people n. members of the established church of a particular place, esp. of the Church of England (cf. chapel-people at chapel n. 4) (now chiefly historical); (later also more generally) members of a church, churchgoers; cf. church folk n. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > Protestantism > Anglicanism > [noun] > person > collective Church of England1395 English Church1532 church people1684 1684 L. Muggleton Let. 18 Oct. in Wks. J. Reeve & L. Muggleton (1832) III. 557 The seed of reason is risen more higher in all religious dissenters than in the common, ignorant, dark church people. 1708 Dissenting Laity against Clamours of Highflying Clergy 8 You create Jealousies and Misunderstandings in the minds of Christians, and go about to perswade Church-People that their Dissenting Neighbours can't be good Christians. 1842 W. Palmer Let. to Protestant-Catholic 53 They are Church people like ourselves at heart. 1912 A. R. Graves Farmer Boy who became Bishop xxxiv. 189 He reported that there were not only no Church people there, but none who cared for Christian services of any kind. 1980 Church Times 22 Feb. 10/2 The day which the general public insist on calling ‘Easter Saturday’ but which churchpeople know as Holy Saturday or Easter Even. 1995 F. Knight 19th-cent. Church & Eng. Society (1998) ii. 35 Out of an estimated population of 138,000 people, 46,447 were seen as being ‘church people’ rather than ‘chapel people’. < as lemmas |
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