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church-book
A book belonging to, or used in connexion with, a church; esp. a. a service-book; b. an official record of the proceedings of a church; c. a parish register.
c1025Wulfstan Hom. (Napier) xxxv. 171 Man hæfð on cyricbocum mæssan ᵹesette. 1514in Glasscock Rec. St. Michael's (1882) 34 Pd to the scriviner for mendyng of the cherch bokis. 1555Eden Decades W. Ind. 221 Whiche the lymmers..paynte on the margentes of churche bookes. 1632Massinger City Madam i. i, Tho' the church-book speak her fifty, they That say she can write thirty..offend her. 1673S. Dugard Marr. Cousin Germans 58 A Name..to live no where but on a Tombstone, or in the Church Book. 1888Daily News 30 Aug., The Rev. John Brown, D.D., the present minister of the church at Bunyan Meeting, Bedford, gives the following extracts from the church-book, touching..their pastor's death [31 Augt. 1688]. |