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The Patriarch, or head of the Abyssinian Church.

A member of the Abyssinian Church.

egance of manners, acquired by education or training. "My new accomplishment of dancing." Churchill. "Accomplishments befitting a station." Thackeray. Accomplishments have taken virtue's place, And wisdom falls before exterior grace. Cowper.

One who has received the highest of the four minor orders in the Catholic church, being ordained to carry the wine and water and the lights at the Mass.

nformity of faith, principle, or opinion; as, men adhere to a party, a cause, a leader, a church.

eader, party, or profession; a follower, or partisan; a believer in a particular faith or church.

of the bishop that he approves of the presentee as a fit person to serve the cure of the church to which he is presented. Shipley.

der pleasing or attractive. As a bride adorneth herself with her jewels. Isa. lxi. 10. At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorned the venerable place. Goldsmith.

The General Association has a general advisory superintendence over all the ministers and churches. Trumbull.

Advowson. [Obs.] The donations or advocations of church livings. Sanderson.

The right of presenting to a vacant benefice or living in the church. [Originally, the relation of a patron (advocatus) or protector of a benefice, and thus privileged to nominate or present to it.]

A church service; a ritual or liturgy. [In this sense, usually Agenda.]

A half gable, as at the end of a penthouse or of the aisle of a church.

Improperly used also for the have; -- as in the phrases, a church with three aisles, the middle aisle.

of white linen, reaching to the feet, an enveloping the person; -- in the Roman Catholic church, worn by those in holy orders when officiating at mass. It was formerly worn, at least by clerics, in daily life.

The first Sunday after Easter Sunday, properly Albless Sunday, because in the early church those who had been baptized on Easter eve laid aside on the following Saturday their white albs which had been put on after baptism.

A sect of reformers opposed to the church of Rome in the 12th centuries.

The second day of November; a feast day of the Roman Catholic church, on which supplications are made for the souls of the faithful dead.

A passageway between rows of pews in a church.

and states by compact, treaty, or league; as, matrimonial alliances; an alliance between church and state; an alliance between France and England.