单词 | dischurch |
释义 | dischurchv. 1. transitive. To cause (a church, congregation, group of worshippers, etc.) no longer to be considered to constitute a church. Now rare (chiefly historical). ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > religion > a religion or church > church [verb (transitive)] > deprive dischurch1609 non-churcha1679 1609 H. Ainsworth Def. Holy Script, Worship & Ministerie 82 He and his followers having dischurched themselves and dissolved their communion. 1610 J. Robinson Justif. Separation from Church of Eng. 127 If Mr Bernard should leave his Vicaridge for a better, then the church of Worksop should be dischurched, and remayne a Church no longer. 1629 Bp. J. Hall Reconciler 11 This heresie..makes Rome justly odious, and execrable..but cannot utterly dischurch it. 1651 C. Cartwright Certamen Religiosum i. 113 The Apostle doth acknowledge the Church of Corinth a true Church notwithstanding the differences and divisions that were in it, so that all dis-union of people is not enough to dis-church them. 1656 S. Winter Serm. 37 That Church shall never be dischurched. 1714 W. Garrett Demonstratio Luculenta Nova (ed. 2) 38 The Beast..overcomes them, and Kills them, Politically, in Dischurching them. 1737 I. Loring Duty Apostatizing People 22 Many of these Churches, for their grievous Neglects and Contempts of the Covenant of God, have been dischurched by him. 1883 J. H. Rigg Char. & Life-work Dr. Pusey iii. 40 What is to be said as to the Eastern Church? Is that also..to be disinherited of the churchly character—to be dis-churched? 1982 T. George J. Robinson & Separatist Trad. iv. 115 The Church Visible was always in the process of becoming, and therefore also ever susceptible to dissolution, to being ‘dischurched’. 2. transitive. To exclude or expel (a person or group of people) from membership of a church; to excommunicate. rare. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > excommunication > excommunicate [verb (transitive)] waryc725 cursec1050 amanseOE accurselOE forcurse1154 mansec1175 ban1303 sequester1395 maledighta1400 anathematize?1473 excommune1483 excommenge1502 excommunicate1526 precide1529 aban1565 anathemize1585 malison1588 consecrate1589 inknot1611 shammatize1613 anathemate1615 unchurcha1620 innodate1630 discommon1639 to swear at ——1680 devote1749 maledict1780 comminate1801 fulminate1806 imban1807 dischurch1990 1990 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 28 June 9/2 His fourteen-year-old son Christopher..asked if his father was about to be dischurched. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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