church
教会,教堂,教室,教会的
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- : a building for public Christian worship.
- : public worship of God or a religious service in such a building: to attend church regularly.
- : the whole body of Christian believers; Christendom.
- : any division of this body professing the same creed and acknowledging the same ecclesiastical authority; a Christian denomination: the Methodist Church.
- : that part of the whole Christian body, or of a particular denomination, belonging to the same city, country, nation, etc.
- : a body of Christians worshipping in a particular building or constituting one congregation: She is a member of this church.
- : ecclesiastical organization, power, and affairs, as distinguished from the state: separation of church and state; The missionary went wherever the church sent him.
- : the clergy and religious officials of a Christian denomination.
- : the Christian faith: a return of intellectuals to the church.
- : the Christian Church before the Reformation.
- : the Roman Catholic Church.
- : the clerical profession or calling: After much study and contemplation, he was prepared to enter the church.
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Science got its start when the likes of Galileo and Copernicus claimed that the church, the state, even Aristotle, could no longer be trusted as authoritative sources of knowledge.
I was actually at church when that … I woke up the next morning.
Wherever they were, they always voted — in fire stations, churches, their retirement community.
He escorted her downstairs to get a list of churches and other nonprofit groups that could help her gather enough money.
One such change occurred on November 27, 2011, when the church attempted to unify the world’s English-speaking Catholics by having them all use the same wording.
The Via Dolorosa ends at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, and is marked by nine stations of the cross.
Church bells pealed from St. Catherine of Siena parish one block away.
If they returned to their church, they would be spared a second attack.
The church was not happy with his views, and there was talk of excommunication.
In a 2009 interview, Church apostle Dallin H. Oaks held that the Church “does not have a position” on that point.
Among the Perpendicular additions to the church last named may be noted a very beautiful oaken rood-screen.
The east window in this has been classed as the A1 of modern painted windows.