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A psalm, hymn, or passage from the Bible, arranged for chanting in church service.

A singer; esp. the leader of a church choir; a precentor. The cantor of the church intones the Te Deum. Milman.

The private orchestra or band of a prince or of a church.

ht, or management, implying responsibility for safety and prosperity. The care of all the churches. 2 Car. xi. 28 Him thy care must be to find. Milton. Perlexed with a thousand cares. Shak.

A vault or crypt in connection with a church, used as a repository for human bones disintered from their original burial places; a charnel house.

A register, or record, as of a monastery or church.

A garment resembling a long frock coat worn by the clergy of certain churches when officiating, and by others as the usually outer garment.

may do by rules and principles drawn from the Scriptures, from the laws of society or the church, or from equity and natural reason; the application of general moral rules to particular cases. The consideration of these nice and puzzling question in the science of ethics has given rise, in modern times, to a particular…

A vault under altar of a Greek church.

ng rudimentary instruction in the doctrines of Christianity; a neophyte; in the primitive church, one officially recognized as a Christian, and admitted to instruction preliminary to admission to full membership in the church.

The principal church in a diocese, so called because in it the bishop has his official chair (Cathedra) or throne.

spistles of the apostles which are addressed to all the faithful, and not to a particular church; being those of James, Peter, Jude, and John.

The faith of the whole orthodox Christian church, or adherence thereto.

rence or conformity to the system of doctrine held by all parts of the orthodox Christian church; the doctrine so held; orthodoxy.

The spiritual head of the Armenian church, who resides at Etchmiadzin, Russia, and has ecclesiastical jurisdiction over, and consecrates the holy oil for, the Armenians of Russia, Turkey, and Persia, including the Patriarchs of Constantinople, Jerusalem, and Sis.

ause it to rain upon the earth forty days. Gen. vii. 4. Cause that it be read also in the church of the Laodiceans. Col. iv. 16.

ic religious rite; -- applied particularly to an officiating priest in the Roman Catholic Church, as distinguished from his assistants.

A place or ground set apart for the burial of the dead; a graveyard; a churchyard; a necropolis.

cal sentence or reprimand; condemnatory judgment. Excommunication or other censure of the church. Bp. Burnet.

The order for rites and forms in the Roman Catholic church, or the book containing the rules presribed to be observed on solemn occasions.