What is the difference between abbey and church?
abbey | church |
The office or dominion of an abbot or abbess.
A monastery or society of people, secluded from the world and devoted to religion and celibacy, which is headed by an abbot or abbess; also, the monastic building or buildings.
The church of a monastery.
(UK) A residence that was previously an abbatial building.
(capitalized) In London, the Abbey is short for Westminster Abbey, and in Scotland, the precincts of the Abbey of Holyrood.
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(countable) A Christian house of worship; a building where religious services take place.
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Christians collectively seen as a single spiritual community; Christianity.
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(countable) A local group of people who follow the same Christian religious beliefs, local or general.
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(countable) A particular denomination of Christianity.
(uncountable, countable, as bare noun) Christian worship held at a church; service.
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A (non-Christian) religion; a religious group.
* 2007 , Scott A. Merriman, Religion and the Law in America ,
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*:Thenne after this lady was delyuerd and chirched / there came a knyghte vnto her / his name was sire Bromel la pleche / the whiche was a grete lord and he hadde loued that lady longe / and he euermore desyred her to wedde her / and soo by no meane she coude putte hym of
*1971 , , Religion and the Decline of Magic , Folio Society 2012, page 36:
*:Nor did it [the Church] accept that the woman should stay indoors until she had been churched .
(label) To educate someone religiously, as in in a church.
As nouns the difference between abbey and church
is that abbey is the office or dominion of an abbot or abbess while church is a Christian house of worship; a building where religious services take place.As proper nouns the difference between abbey and church
is that abbey is {{given name|female|diminutive=Abigail}} while Church is {{surname}.As a verb church is
to conduct a religious service for (a woman) after childbirth.abbey
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(en noun)- From 1199 to 1203 William Punchard was the abbot of the abbey of Rievaulx, which was part of the Cistercian order of monks.
See also
* cloister * convent * friary * monastery * nunnery * prioryReferences
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Alternative forms
* churche (obsolete)Noun
- There is a lovely little church in the valley.
- This building used to be a church before being converted into a library.
- These worshippers make up the Church of Christ.
- Be shepherds of the church of God, which he bought with his own blood.
- The Church''' of England separated from the Roman Catholic '''Church in 1534.
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- Among these, the church must investigate fundemental questions,
- She goes to a Wiccan church down the road.
