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rising and setting of the sun and moon, eclipses, hours of full tide, stated festivals of churches, terms of courts, etc. Nautical almanac, an almanac, or year book, containing astronomical calculations (lunar, stellar, etc.), and other information useful to mariners.

In the Christian church, a construction of stone, wood, or other material for the celebration of the Holy Eucharist; the communion table.

The offerings made upon the altar, or to a church.

A vicar of a church.

In the proper position of an altar, that is, at the east of a church with its ends towards the north and south. Shipley.

A large pulpit or reading desk, in the early Christian churches. Gwilt.

rtaining to St. Ambrose; as, the Ambrosian office, or ritual, a formula of worship in the church of Milan, instituted by St. Ambrose. Ambrosian chant, the mode of signing or chanting introduced by St. Ambrose in the 4th century.

In churches, a kind of closet, niche, cupboard, or locker for utensils, vestments, etc.

first on the head, but now about the neck and shoulders, by priests of the Roman Catholic Church while saying Mass.

Over against; as, he lives anent the church.

A minister or pastor of a church, as in the Seven Asiatic churches. [Archaic] Unto-the angel of the church of Ephesus write. Rev. ii. 1.

erness and angelic patience. Macaulay. Angelic Hymn, a very ancient hymn of the Christian Church; -- so called from its beginning with the song of the heavenly host recorded in Luke ii. 14. Eadie.

land or the English nation; especially, pertaining to, or connected with, the established church of England; as, the Anglican church, doctrine, orders, ritual, etc.

Strong partiality to the principles and rites of the Church of England.

Of or pertaining to a church modeled on the English Reformation; Anglican; -- sometimes restricted to the ritualistic or High Church section of the Church of England.

The belief of those in the Church of England who accept many doctrines and practices which they maintain were those of the primitive, or true, Catholic Church, of which they consider the Church of England to be the lineal descendant.

soul of a deceased person; the commemoration of some sacred event, as the dedication of a church or the consecration of a pope.

The festival celebrated (March 25th) by the Church of England, of Rome, etc., in memory of the angel's announcement, on that day; Lady Day.

One who announces. Specifically: An officer in the church of Constantinople, whose business it was to inform the people of the festivals to be celebrated.

Where a choir is divided, as in some Spanish churches, that division of it which is the farther from the sanctuary.