mother churchn.

Brit.

/ˈmʌðə ˌtʃəːtʃ/, U.S.

/ˈməðər ˌtʃərtʃ/ (in sense 1)Brit.

/ˌmʌðə ˈtʃəːtʃ/, U.S.

/ˌməðər ˈtʃərtʃ/

Forms: see mother n.¹ and church n.¹

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: mother n.¹, church n.¹

Etymology: < mother n.¹ + church n.¹ Compare Middle Dutch moederkerke , Middle Low German mōderkerke , in sense 2.With sense 1 compare post-classical Latin mater ecclesia (late 2nd cent.), Italian madre Chiesa (a1342). With sense 2b compare Old French mere eglise (c1100), Old Occitan mayre gleysa (1283).

Christian Church.

1. Usually with capital initials. The Church, esp. the Roman Catholic Church, considered as a mother in its functions of nourishing and protecting the believer. Cf. mother n.¹ 4d.

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society > faith > sect > Christianity > Roman Catholicism > person > [noun] > collective

mother churchOE

mother kirkc1430

whore1530

Lady of Rome1574

Western Church1577

west1586

scarlet whore1590

Lady of Babylon1605

red letter1608

scarlet lady1807

scarlet woman1816

Latinism1920

OE Homily (Corpus Cambr. 190) (Dict. Old Eng. transcript) And heom biþ forwirnd cyrclic ingang oþþæt hig geendodre openlicre dædbote eft beon onfangene mid bisceoplicre lefe on bosm þære modorcircan.

c1475 Wisdom (Folger) (1969) 992 Now haue ye for-yeffnes þat were fylyde, To prey yowur modyr chyrche of her proteccion.

1539 T. Pery Let. in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. II. 145 Acording to the lawdebwll usse and costom of owr holly mother Chwrche.

1591 Troublesome Raigne Iohn ii. sig. B3 Vnworthie man..That dost oppugne against thy Mother Church.

?a1645 A. Stafford Just Apol. in Life Blessed Virgin (1860) p. xxii A base Desertour of my Mother Church.

1656 A. Cowley On Death of Crashaw in Poems 30 Pardon, my Mother Church, if I consent That Angels led him [sc. Crashaw] when from thee he went, For even in Error sure no Danger is When joyn'd with so much Piety as His.

1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 22 The Good of Mother Church, as well as that of Civil Society, renders a Judicial Practice in criminal Cases entirely necessary.

1785 W. Cowper Task ii. 576 So we, no longer taught By monitors that mother church supplies [etc.].

1827 J. Keble Holy Comm. vi To feel thy kind upholding arm, My mother Church.

1888 S. Moore tr. K. Marx & F. Engels Manifesto Communist Party iii. 24 Has it not preached in the place of these, charity and poverty, celibacy and mortification of the flesh, monastic life and Mother Church?

1934 T. S. Eliot Rock i. 45 I have a great respect for Mother Church. She is the bulwark of society.

1997 Sunday Times 26 Oct. (Books section) 8/2 Dali's opportune allegiance to fascism and Mother Church.

a. A church (as a parish church) which has responsibility for or oversight of another (as a chapel of ease, chantry, etc.). Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > artefacts > sanctuary or holy place > church or place of worship > [noun] > parish

mother church?1316

parish churcha1387

mother kirka1447

parochial1606

plebanian1631

plebania1851

?1316 Short Metrical Chron. (Royal) 923 in J. Ritson Anc. Eng. Metrical Romanceës (1802) II. 308 Fifti moder chirchen ant mo He lette falle ant chapeles bo.

c1460 in A. Clark Eng. Reg. Oseney Abbey (1907) 112 For-asmuch as þey saide the church of Saunforde to be þe modur church, And oþer seyde hit to be a chapell to þe church of Barton perteynyng [etc.].

a1475 in A. Clark Eng. Reg. Godstow Nunnery (1906) ii. 649 Except the tethys of wolle & lambys of the modurchurche of Bloxham.

1546 in W. Page Certificates Chantries County of York (1895) II. 228 The same chauntery is distaunt from the parysshe church..whych they calle the mother church, ij myles.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. xiii. 473 A Square Steeple, or Parochiall, or Mother Church Steeple.

1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 452. ¶7 We are inform'd from Pankridge, that a dozen Weddings were lately celebrated in the Mother Church of that Place.

1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. 112 If any..great lord, had a church within his own demesnes, distinct from the mother-church, in the nature of a private chapel.

1895 Dict. National Biogr. XLIV. 29/1 Pateshull, Martin de The chapel of Berrow and, perhaps, its mother-church of Overbury, Worcestershire.

b. The principal church of a country, region, or city; a cathedral or a metropolitan church.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > artefacts > sanctuary or holy place > principal place of worship > [noun]

minsterOE

architemple1297

cathedral church1297

High Churchc1325

seec1325

mother churcha1387

parish churcha1387

High Kirk1422

see churchc1449

duomo1549

basilica1563

parish kirk1563

cathedral1587

dome1691

basilic1703

dom1861

domchurch1864

a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 77 Þe þridde chirche was þe chief moderchirche of al Wales.

1389 in J. T. Smith & L. T. Smith Eng. Gilds (1870) 37 (MED) Þe ordenaunces of þe gilde of Carpenteris..shullen ben holden perpetuelliche in þe moder Chirche of Norwiche.

c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 543 (MED) Religiose monasteries..han large and wijde chirchis like sumwhat to cathedral or modir chirchis of diocisis.

a1500 Eng. Conquest Ireland (Rawl.) (1896) 43 (MED) The archebyschope..his holy crovne bare ayeyn the naked Swerdes forto smyte, and that in the modyr chyrch, heighist of al the lond.

a1513 H. Bradshaw Lyfe St. Werburge (1521) ii. iii. sig. n.v Whiche churche was principall to all the citie And the mouther churche called withouten doubt.

1577 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. i. ii. i. 15 Our deanerie churches..now called mother churches and their incumbents archpreests.

1660 E. Waterhouse Disc. Arms & Armory 175 St. Pauls, thy viduated Mother Church.

1683 J. Crowne City Politiques ii. 14 Why is not a Cathedral a Mother-Church Sir?

1719 J. Bingham Origines Ecclesiasticæ VI. xv. ii. 611 It was the Custom at Rome to consecrate the Fermentum..in the Mother Church, and send it thence on the Lord's Day to the Presbyters in the..lesser Churches.

1738 J. Chamberlayne Present State Great Brit. (ed. 8) i. ix. 106 St. Paul's, the Mother Church of London Diocese.

1845 J. Lingard Hist. & Antiq. Anglo-Saxon Church (ed. 3) I. iv. 161 The chief minster was the cathedral or mother-church.

1871 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest IV. xviii. 125 The mother church of the whole land, the church of Christ at Canterbury.

1937 E. Underhill Worship (ed. 3) xv. 335 The Cathedral is now once more recognized as a sacred shrine, and the Mother Church of the diocese.

1976 K. Amis Alteration i. 7 This was the Cathedral Basilica of St. George at Coverley, the mother church of all England.

c. The original church of a particular Christian movement, serving as an organizational or spiritual centre; esp. the First Church of Christ, Scientist in Boston, Massachusetts, that of the Christian Scientists.

ΚΠ

1892 Christian Sci. Jrnl. Nov. 373 The church to be erected on the lot..donated by her [sc. Mary Eddy]..is in the fullest sense the mother church... There will be many church buildings erected all over the world..; but none of them will take the place of ‘The First Church of Christ Scientist’.

1910 Encycl. Brit. VI. 291/1 A purely local and congregational form of government was adopted, but Christian Scientists naturally looked to the mother church in Boston..as their centre.

1991 Canada Lutheran Nov. 26/3 They..established a congregation, calling it Wuoristo Finnish Church. It became the ‘mother church’ of many congregations ministering to Finns across Canada.

1992 N. Smart World's Relig. xv. 364 The First Church of Christ Scientist in Boston.., which serves organizationally as the mother church to all the churches round the world.

1999 Santa Fe New Mexican (Nexis) 6 Nov. b7 The mother church of Divine Science is located in Denver.

3. The church (i.e. organized body of Christians) of which another church or denomination is an offshoot; (also) the oldest or original church from which all others have sprung. Also in extended use.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > aspects of faith > religion > a religion or church > [noun] > original

mother church1574

para-church1970

superchurch1970

society > faith > sect > Christianity > person > [noun] > collective

holy churchc897

churcheOE

brideOE

ChristendomOE

Christ's churchOE

Christianitya1300

motherc1300

brotherheadc1384

Peter's bargea1393

Church of Christc1400

faithfulc1400

body of Christ?1495

congregation1526

husbandry1526

Peter's ship1571

mother church1574

St. Peter's ship1678

Peter's bark1857

Peter's boat1893

priest1897

1574 G. Scot Briefe Treat. Errors Romish Church sig. Aiij^v Herein that wicked mother-churche We may to witnes call.

1645 E. Pagitt Heresiogr. (ed. 2) To Rdr. sig. D 2 The Brownists arrogate to themselves the name of Separatists, which well they may, being separated from their Mother Church, from all the Reformed Churches, and malitiously divided amongst themselves.

1667 M. Poole Dialogue between Popish Priest & Protestant 35 Not Rome, but Ierusalem should be the Mother Church.

1836 Biblical Repertory July 411 He saw..that this important something was possessed in common by the mother church and by her daughter here.

1882 F. W. Farrar Early Days Christianity I. 94 In reading St. James we can realise the sentiments of the Mother-Church of Jerusalem.

1908 P. T. Forsyth in Contemp. Rev. Feb. 159 Puritanism is the mother church of Western democracy.

1991 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 1 Apr. 13/1 Dr Carey, 55, is on the radical evangelical wing of the Church of England, mother church of the world's 70 million Anglicans.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	mother church
释义	mother churchn. Brit. /ˈmʌðə ˌtʃəːtʃ/, U.S. /ˈməðər ˌtʃərtʃ/ (in sense 1)Brit. /ˌmʌðə ˈtʃəːtʃ/, U.S. /ˌməðər ˈtʃərtʃ/ Forms: see mother n.¹ and church n.¹ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: mother n.¹, church n.¹ Etymology: < mother n.¹ + church n.¹ Compare Middle Dutch moederkerke , Middle Low German mōderkerke , in sense 2.With sense 1 compare post-classical Latin mater ecclesia (late 2nd cent.), Italian madre Chiesa (a1342). With sense 2b compare Old French mere eglise (c1100), Old Occitan mayre gleysa (1283). Christian Church. 1. Usually with capital initials. The Church, esp. the Roman Catholic Church, considered as a mother in its functions of nourishing and protecting the believer. Cf. mother n.¹ 4d. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > Roman Catholicism > person > [noun] > collective mother churchOE mother kirkc1430 whore1530 Lady of Rome1574 Western Church1577 west1586 scarlet whore1590 Lady of Babylon1605 red letter1608 scarlet lady1807 scarlet woman1816 Latinism1920 OE Homily (Corpus Cambr. 190) (Dict. Old Eng. transcript) And heom biþ forwirnd cyrclic ingang oþþæt hig geendodre openlicre dædbote eft beon onfangene mid bisceoplicre lefe on bosm þære modorcircan. c1475 Wisdom (Folger) (1969) 992 Now haue ye for-yeffnes þat were fylyde, To prey yowur modyr chyrche of her proteccion. 1539 T. Pery Let. in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. II. 145 Acording to the lawdebwll usse and costom of owr holly mother Chwrche. 1591 Troublesome Raigne Iohn ii. sig. B3 Vnworthie man..That dost oppugne against thy Mother Church. ?a1645 A. Stafford Just Apol. in Life Blessed Virgin (1860) p. xxii A base Desertour of my Mother Church. 1656 A. Cowley On Death of Crashaw in Poems 30 Pardon, my Mother Church, if I consent That Angels led him [sc. Crashaw] when from thee he went, For even in Error sure no Danger is When joyn'd with so much Piety as His. 1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 22 The Good of Mother Church, as well as that of Civil Society, renders a Judicial Practice in criminal Cases entirely necessary. 1785 W. Cowper Task ii. 576 So we, no longer taught By monitors that mother church supplies [etc.]. 1827 J. Keble Holy Comm. vi To feel thy kind upholding arm, My mother Church. 1888 S. Moore tr. K. Marx & F. Engels Manifesto Communist Party iii. 24 Has it not preached in the place of these, charity and poverty, celibacy and mortification of the flesh, monastic life and Mother Church? 1934 T. S. Eliot Rock i. 45 I have a great respect for Mother Church. She is the bulwark of society. 1997 Sunday Times 26 Oct. (Books section) 8/2 Dali's opportune allegiance to fascism and Mother Church. 2. a. A church (as a parish church) which has responsibility for or oversight of another (as a chapel of ease, chantry, etc.). Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > sanctuary or holy place > church or place of worship > [noun] > parish mother church?1316 parish churcha1387 mother kirka1447 parochial1606 plebanian1631 plebania1851 ?1316 Short Metrical Chron. (Royal) 923 in J. Ritson Anc. Eng. Metrical Romanceës (1802) II. 308 Fifti moder chirchen ant mo He lette falle ant chapeles bo. c1460 in A. Clark Eng. Reg. Oseney Abbey (1907) 112 For-asmuch as þey saide the church of Saunforde to be þe modur church, And oþer seyde hit to be a chapell to þe church of Barton perteynyng [etc.]. a1475 in A. Clark Eng. Reg. Godstow Nunnery (1906) ii. 649 Except the tethys of wolle & lambys of the modurchurche of Bloxham. 1546 in W. Page Certificates Chantries County of York (1895) II. 228 The same chauntery is distaunt from the parysshe church..whych they calle the mother church, ij myles. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. xiii. 473 A Square Steeple, or Parochiall, or Mother Church Steeple. 1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 452. ¶7 We are inform'd from Pankridge, that a dozen Weddings were lately celebrated in the Mother Church of that Place. 1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. 112 If any..great lord, had a church within his own demesnes, distinct from the mother-church, in the nature of a private chapel. 1895 Dict. National Biogr. XLIV. 29/1 Pateshull, Martin de The chapel of Berrow and, perhaps, its mother-church of Overbury, Worcestershire. b. The principal church of a country, region, or city; a cathedral or a metropolitan church. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > sanctuary or holy place > principal place of worship > [noun] minsterOE architemple1297 cathedral church1297 High Churchc1325 seec1325 mother churcha1387 parish churcha1387 High Kirk1422 see churchc1449 duomo1549 basilica1563 parish kirk1563 cathedral1587 dome1691 basilic1703 dom1861 domchurch1864 a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 77 Þe þridde chirche was þe chief moderchirche of al Wales. 1389 in J. T. Smith & L. T. Smith Eng. Gilds (1870) 37 (MED) Þe ordenaunces of þe gilde of Carpenteris..shullen ben holden perpetuelliche in þe moder Chirche of Norwiche. c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 543 (MED) Religiose monasteries..han large and wijde chirchis like sumwhat to cathedral or modir chirchis of diocisis. a1500 Eng. Conquest Ireland (Rawl.) (1896) 43 (MED) The archebyschope..his holy crovne bare ayeyn the naked Swerdes forto smyte, and that in the modyr chyrch, heighist of al the lond. a1513 H. Bradshaw Lyfe St. Werburge (1521) ii. iii. sig. n.v Whiche churche was principall to all the citie And the mouther churche called withouten doubt. 1577 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. i. ii. i. 15 Our deanerie churches..now called mother churches and their incumbents archpreests. 1660 E. Waterhouse Disc. Arms & Armory 175 St. Pauls, thy viduated Mother Church. 1683 J. Crowne City Politiques ii. 14 Why is not a Cathedral a Mother-Church Sir? 1719 J. Bingham Origines Ecclesiasticæ VI. xv. ii. 611 It was the Custom at Rome to consecrate the Fermentum..in the Mother Church, and send it thence on the Lord's Day to the Presbyters in the..lesser Churches. 1738 J. Chamberlayne Present State Great Brit. (ed. 8) i. ix. 106 St. Paul's, the Mother Church of London Diocese. 1845 J. Lingard Hist. & Antiq. Anglo-Saxon Church (ed. 3) I. iv. 161 The chief minster was the cathedral or mother-church. 1871 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest IV. xviii. 125 The mother church of the whole land, the church of Christ at Canterbury. 1937 E. Underhill Worship (ed. 3) xv. 335 The Cathedral is now once more recognized as a sacred shrine, and the Mother Church of the diocese. 1976 K. Amis Alteration i. 7 This was the Cathedral Basilica of St. George at Coverley, the mother church of all England. c. The original church of a particular Christian movement, serving as an organizational or spiritual centre; esp. the First Church of Christ, Scientist in Boston, Massachusetts, that of the Christian Scientists. ΚΠ 1892 Christian Sci. Jrnl. Nov. 373 The church to be erected on the lot..donated by her [sc. Mary Eddy]..is in the fullest sense the mother church... There will be many church buildings erected all over the world..; but none of them will take the place of ‘The First Church of Christ Scientist’. 1910 Encycl. Brit. VI. 291/1 A purely local and congregational form of government was adopted, but Christian Scientists naturally looked to the mother church in Boston..as their centre. 1991 Canada Lutheran Nov. 26/3 They..established a congregation, calling it Wuoristo Finnish Church. It became the ‘mother church’ of many congregations ministering to Finns across Canada. 1992 N. Smart World's Relig. xv. 364 The First Church of Christ Scientist in Boston.., which serves organizationally as the mother church to all the churches round the world. 1999 Santa Fe New Mexican (Nexis) 6 Nov. b7 The mother church of Divine Science is located in Denver. 3. The church (i.e. organized body of Christians) of which another church or denomination is an offshoot; (also) the oldest or original church from which all others have sprung. Also in extended use. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > religion > a religion or church > [noun] > original mother church1574 para-church1970 superchurch1970 society > faith > sect > Christianity > person > [noun] > collective holy churchc897 churcheOE brideOE ChristendomOE Christ's churchOE Christianitya1300 motherc1300 brotherheadc1384 Peter's bargea1393 Church of Christc1400 faithfulc1400 body of Christ?1495 congregation1526 husbandry1526 Peter's ship1571 mother church1574 St. Peter's ship1678 Peter's bark1857 Peter's boat1893 priest1897 1574 G. Scot Briefe Treat. Errors Romish Church sig. Aiij^v Herein that wicked mother-churche We may to witnes call. 1645 E. Pagitt Heresiogr. (ed. 2) To Rdr. sig. D 2 The Brownists arrogate to themselves the name of Separatists, which well they may, being separated from their Mother Church, from all the Reformed Churches, and malitiously divided amongst themselves. 1667 M. Poole Dialogue between Popish Priest & Protestant 35 Not Rome, but Ierusalem should be the Mother Church. 1836 Biblical Repertory July 411 He saw..that this important something was possessed in common by the mother church and by her daughter here. 1882 F. W. Farrar Early Days Christianity I. 94 In reading St. James we can realise the sentiments of the Mother-Church of Jerusalem. 1908 P. T. Forsyth in Contemp. Rev. Feb. 159 Puritanism is the mother church of Western democracy. 1991 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 1 Apr. 13/1 Dr Carey, 55, is on the radical evangelical wing of the Church of England, mother church of the world's 70 million Anglicans. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.OE
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