Churchly Definition

chûrchlē
adjective
churchlier, churchliest
Belonging to a church.
Webster's New World
Of or fit for a church.
Webster's New World

Devoted to, or inclined to attach great importance to, the order and ritual of a particular section of the Christian church.

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Base Form:
churchly
Comparative:
churchlier
Superlative:
churchliest

Origin of Churchly

  • From Middle English *chircheli, from Old English ċiriċlīċ (“ecclesiastical”), equivalent to church +‎ -ly. Cognate with Scots kirklyk, kirklike (“ecclesiastical”), Dutch kerkelijk (“ecclesiastic, ecclesiastical”), German kirchlich (“ecclesiastical, religious, ecclesiastic”), Swedish kyrklig (“ecclesiastical”). Compare also churchlike.

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Churchly Sentence Examples

  • The same doctrines were preached with more of churchly fervour by Maximus the Confessor (580-622).

  • Eckhart was a distinguished son of the Church; E but in reading his works we feel at once that we have passed into quite a different sphere of thought from that of the churchly mystics; we seem to leave the cloister behind and to breathe a freer atmosphere.

  • But the link that connects him with churchly realism, as well as with the NeoPlatonic mysticism, is the conviction that complete and certain knowledge rests wholly on divine revelation, i.e.

  • Scholasticism opens with a discussion of certain points in the Aristotelian logic; it speedily begins to apply its logical distinctions to the doctrines of the church; and when it attains its full stature in St Thomas it has, with the exception of certain mysteries, rationalized or Aristotelianized the whole churchly system.

  • But dogma is not yet technical for what is Christian or churchly.

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