| 单词 | western church |
| 释义 | > as lemmasWestern Church Western Church n. the Latin or Roman Catholic as distinguished from the Greek or Eastern Church; (also) any of the early churches of Western Europe. 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 1577 W. Fulke Two Treat. against Papistes i. i. 3 The popish church..hath peruerted and corrupted all partes of the Latine, or Westerne Church, with Idolatry and false religion. 1628 Bp. J. Hall Olde Relig. viii. i. 72 The Westerne, or Romane Church. 1659 H. Thorndike Wks. (1846) II. 557 Those controversies about which a settled division is once formed, as now in the western Church. 1709 J. Johnson Clergy-man's Vade Mecum: Pt. II (title page) Containing the Canonical Codes Of the Primitive, Universal, Eastern, and Western Church. 1775 J. Thorold Script.-Knowl. ii. 144 The Doctrine of Transubstantiation disgraceth, and oppresseth both the Eastern, and the Western Church. 1838 W. Palmer Treat. Church of Christ I. 276 The Western churches..were in communion..with the great apostolical church of Rome. 1850 J. M. Neale Hist. Holy Eastern Church: Pt. 1 I. Introd. 9 The tendency of the Western Church..has been to embroil herself with the kings and kingdoms of this world. 1904 A. F. Pollard Cranmer vi. 172 The use of litanies had early grown up in the Western Church. 1955 Law & Contemp. Probl. 20 188 The Protestant Reformation had torn the Western Church into fragments. 2007 Wall St. Jrnl. 18 Dec. a18/3 Russia..belongs to the Eastern Orthodox tradition, which split from the Western church in the 11th century. < as lemmas |
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