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One who desecrates. "Desecrators of the church." Morley.

to denounce; to condemn. [Obs.] The heresy of Nestorius . . . was detested in the Eastern churches. Fuller. God hath detested them with his own mouth. Bale.

A thing consecrated; an object of devotion. [R.] Churches and altars, priests and all devotions, Tumbled together into rude chaos. Beau. & Fl. Days of devotion. See under Day.

Governed by deacons. "Diaconate church." T. Goodwin.

A cutting in two; a division. A general breach or dichotomy with their church. Sir T. Browne.

Distinct; separate; not the same; other. "Five different churches." Addison.

To get out of repair; to fall into partial ruin; to become decayed; as, the church was suffered to dilapidate. Johnson.

Ecclesiastical waste; impairing of church property by an incumbent, through neglect or by intention. The business of dilapidations came on between our bishop and the Archibishop of York. Strype.

t the names of living, and in the other of deceased, ecclesiastics and benefactors of the church; a catalogue of saints.

A service for the dead, in the Roman Catholic Church, being the first antiphon of Matins for the dead, of which Dirige is the first word; a dirge. Evensongs and placebo and dirige. Wyclif. Resort, I pray you, unto my sepulture To sing my dirige with great devotion. Lamentation of Mary Magdalene.

ation or possession of a spiritual corporation. The appropriation may be severed, and the church become disappropriate, two ways. Blackstone.

A Puritan or Presbyterian; -- because of rigid adherence to religious or church discipline. [Obs.]

ction against one guilty of ecclesiastical offenses; reformatory or penal action toward a church member.

To uncover. [Obs.] Whether any man hath pulled down or discovered any church. Abp. Grindal.

To deprive of an endowment, as a church. Gladstone.

The act of depriving of an endowment or endowments. [The] disendowment of the Irish Church. G. B. Smith.

To unsettle; to break up (anything established); to deprive, as a church, of its connection with the state. M. Arnold.

established; specifically, the withdrawal of the support of the state from an established church; as, the disestablishment and disendowment of the Irish Church by Act of Parliament.

); to throw into utter disorder; to disarrange. Lyford . . . attempted to disorganize the church. Eliot (1809).

thing forbidden, or to omit doing something enjoined; specifically, in the Roman Catholic Church, exemption from some ecclesiastical law or obligation to God which a man has incurred of his own free will (oaths, vows, etc.). A dispensation was obtained to enable Dr. Barrow to marry. Ward.