| 单词 | methodist episcopal |
| 释义 | > as lemmasMethodist Episcopal 3. Of a church: Constituted on the principle of episcopacy. Often spec. (with initial capital) of the Anglican Church, of which in Scotland and the United States it is the ordinary designation; also with prefixed adjective in the names of certain other religious bodies, as Methodist Episcopal, Reformed Episcopal. Hence of buildings used for worship, clergy, forms of service, etc.: Belonging to such a church.In U.S. sometimes of persons, = episcopalian adj. 1. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > Protestantism > Anglicanism > [adjective] Anglican1598 Anglical1600 episcopal1752 episcopalian1768 Church of Englandist1818 churchy1843 church1853 1752 D. Hume Ess. & Treat. (1777) I. 69 The established clergy were episcopal. 1803 Gazetteer Scotl. at Kelso The episcopal chapel. a1831 A. Knox Remains (1844) I. 59 The distress of the English Episcopal Church during the Usurpation. 1844 S. Wilberforce Hist. Protestant Episc. Church Amer. (1846) 437 It would be difficult to find, in the whole Episcopal communion throughout America, one specimen, etc. < as lemmas |
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