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The ground adjoining a church, in which the dead are buried; a cemetery. Like graves in the holy churchyard. Shak.

A portion of the Church of England, consisting of persons who claim to hold a position, in respect to doctrine and fellowship, intermediate between the High Church party and the Low Church, or evangelical, party. The term has been applied to otherbodies of men holding liberal or comprehensive views of Christian doctrin…

An exchanger or an exchange of benefices. [Cant]

The native church of Egypt or church of Alexandria, which in general organization and doctrines resembles the Roman Catholic Church, except that it holds to the Monophysitic doctrine which was condemned (a. d. 451) by the council of Chalcedon, and allows its priests to marry. The "pope and patriarch" has jurisdiction o…

To deprive of status as a church, or of membership in a church. Bp. Hall.

That portion of the Christian church which prevails in the countries once comprised in the Eastern Roman Empire and the countries converted to Christianity by missionaries from them. Its full official title is The Orthodox Catholic Apostolic Eastern Church. It became estranged from the Western, or Roman, Church over th…

Of or pertaining to, or favoring, the party called the High Church, or their doctrines or policy. See High Church, under High, a.

The principles of the high-church party.

One who holds high-church principles.

The state of being a high-churchman. J. H. Newman.

ical organizations or forms; -- applied especially to Episcopalians, and opposed to high- church. See High Church, under High.

The principles of the low-church party.

One who holds low-church principles.

The state of being a low-churchman.

The established church of the Russian empire. It forms a portion, by far the largest, of the Eastern Church and is governed by the Holy Synod. The czar is the head of the church, but he has never claimed the right of deciding questions of theology and dogma.

To expel, or cause to separate, from a church; to excommunicate. Sir M. Hale.

In church or chapel style; -- said of compositions sung in the old church style, without instrumental accompaniment; as, a mass a capella, i. e., a mass purely vocal.

Father; religious superior; -- in the Syriac, Coptic, and Ethiopic churches, a title given to the bishops, and by the bishops to the patriarch.

The church of a monastery.

The white polar (Populus alba). Six abeles i' the churchyard grow. Mrs. Browning.