| 单词 | kirk assembly |
| 释义 | > as lemmaskirk assembly kirk assembly n. the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland (see general assembly n. (a) at general adj. and n. Compounds 2); (also) a meeting of this body. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > ecclesiastical discipline > court > presbyterian > [noun] > general assembly general assembly1550 assemblya1572 kirk assembly1646 1646 H. Burton Conformitie's Deformity 21 For whosoever shall not in all things conform to the constitutions of that generall Kirk assembly,..then, ipso facto, imprisonment, confiscation of goods, banishment, and what not? 1752 T. Carte Gen. Hist. Eng. III. 425 Going..to the Kirk-assembly at Edenburgh. 1844 Tait's Edinb. Mag. Aug. 519/2 The resolutions..carried with only one dissenting voice in the Kirk Assembly. 1910 R. G. Usher Reconstruction of Eng. Church vi. 158 The ‘golden law’ of 1592, on which Presbyterianism in Scotland then rested, had declared that the Kirk Assembly had a right to meet yearly. 2006 Sunday Times (Nexis) 28 May 2 Last week,..the Kirk assembly narrowly voted by 322 votes to 314 to allow ministers to ‘conduct a service marking a civil partnership’. < as lemmas |
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