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English
Noun
chirche (plural chirches)
- Obsolete spelling of church.
Middle English
- cherch, cherche, chirch, church, churche, chyrch, chyrche, kirke, kyrk, kyrke, schyrsche
- chireche, chiriche, circe, cyrce (Early Middle English)
Etymology
From Old English ċiriċe, from Proto-West Germanic *kirikā, borrowed from Ancient Greek κυριακόν (kuriakón).
Pronunciation
Noun
chirche (plural chirches or chirchen)
- church, cathedral
p. 1154, “AD 1137”, in Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (MS. Laud Misc. 636, continuation), Peterborough, folio 89, verso; republished at Oxford: Digital Bodleian, 2018 February 8:Foꝛ ouer ſithon ne · foꝛ baren. hi nouther circe ne cyrceiard. oc namen al þe god ð þar inne ƿaſ. ⁊ brenden ſythen þe cyrce ⁊ al te gædere.- Because after a while, they spared neither churches or churchyards, but stole all the valuables within them before burning the church and everything in it.
- temple, synagogue
- clergy, priests
- religious organisation or community
- Christendom, the whole of Christianity
- The Roman Catholic Church
- A regional branch of Christianity
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