单词 | unchurch |
释义 | unchurchv. 1. transitive. To remove or exclude (individuals) from membership of a church; to shut out from church privileges; to excommunicate. 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 a1620 J. Dyke Divers Select Serm. (1640) 372 Hee will cast men out of the Temple, will unchurch them,..because men doe not buy in the Temple. 1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. ix. 72 These holy men..were loath to un-church any, and drive them off from an Ecclesiastical communion for such petty differences. 1677 W. Hughes Man of Sin ii. xii. 217 Gregory 3d...lets fly against the Emperour Leo also, to Unchurch and Uncrown him together. 1703 W. Burkitt Expos. Notes New Test. 2 Cor. i. 24 Our Apostle doth not Unchurch them.., but endeavours to reform their Disorders. 1711 Medley No. 21. 243 All Candidates,..if they vote with Dissenters, are (however Orthodox themselves) ipso facto unchurch'd. 1876 W. Fairbairn in Contemp. Rev. June 127 He did not mean to be unchurched, was thoroughly happy and at home in the Christian religion. 2. a. To exclude (a number or class of persons) from participation in the Church (or some branch of it); to divest (a community) of the character of a church; to deprive of the possession of a church. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > religion > a religion or church > church [verb (transitive)] > exclude from or divest of character of unchurch1656 1656 R. Sanderson 20 Serm. 63 These our Brethren:..of the Separation, are so violent and peremptory in Vnchurching all the world but themselves. 1657 J. Watts Scribe, Pharisee 8 If they be able to unchurch England, they may unchurch also all the World. 1709 J. Johnson Clergy-man's Vade Mecum: Pt. II p. xcvi We are told..that by this judgment and practice we unchurch all foreign protestants. 1752 T. Carte Gen. Hist. Eng. III. 578 Unchurching all bodies of Christians who did not adopt this discipline of his predecessor Calvin's invention. 1773 J. Allen Assoc. against Established Church Indefensible 12 A contempt of morality would be a reason sufficient for unchurching any Communion. 1833 Tracts for Times No. 4. 5 Do you then unchurch all the Presbyterians, all Christians who have no Bishops? 1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits xiii. 227 Of course, money will..steadily work to..unchurch the people to whom it was bequeathed. 1892 Guardian 28 Sept. 1447/1 It ‘unchurches’ whole communities of sincere Christians. b. With church as object. (Cf. unkirk un- prefix2 1d(b).) ΚΠ 1633 R. Capel Tentations i. 214 This were to unchurch the Church of the Iewes, to say, that Gods people cannot doe that sin after repentance which they did doe before. 1661 W. Prynne Unbishoping of Timothy & Titus (new ed.) 80 They..Un-church most Protestant Churches in forein parts, and Un-minister their Ministers. 1680 C. Ness Compl. Church-hist. 404 He wrote those seven Epistles to the seven Churches which were not un-churched. 1707 G. Hickes Two Treat. Pref. p. cxcii Invidious Clamour..for..unchurching the Reformed Churches. 1830 S. H. Cassan Lives Bishops of Bath & Wells II. 36 His Lordship's argument thus practically unchurches the Church. 1889 C. Gore Rom. Catholic Claims x. 162 But undiscipline does not unchurch a church. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.a1620 |
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