kyrk

From Northern Middle English kyrk, kyrke, from chirche, from Old English ċiriċe (“church”), from Proto-West Germanic *kirikā, an early borrowing of Ancient Greek κυριακόν (kuriakón).

kyrk (countable and uncountable, plural kyrks)

1. (Christianity, Northern England, Scotland) Obsolete spelling of kirk.
   • 1639, Thomas Lord Bishop of Duresme [i.e., Thomas Morton], “They that reſiſt ſhall receive to themſelves Damnation”, in A Sermon Preached Before the Kings Moſt Excellent Majestie, in the Cathedrall Church of Durham.  , Robert Barker, page 36:

     Saint Ambroſe, when the Emperor invaded his Kyrk, and the people were ready to make reſcue, ſo farre as that the Invaders could not have ſuſtained their force ; […]

   • 1644, John Knox, The Historie of the Reformation of the Church of Scotland;  , London:   John Raworth for George Thomason and Octavian Pullen  , page 2:

     1. First, That Images are not to be had in the Kyrk, nor to be worſhipped.

   • 1659, Henry Stubbe, A Letter to an Officer of the Army Concerning a Select Senate  , London:   T. B.  , page 17:

     All things given in hoſpitality, all rents pertaining to Prieſts and Chanteries, Colledges, Chappelries, Fryeries of all orders, the ſiſters of the Seynes, all which ought to be retained ſtill in the uſe of the Kyrk. Give them but leave to take their breath, ard expect the reſt: The whole revenues of the temporalties of the Biſhops, Deans, and Arch-deans lands, and all rents pertaining to Cathedral Kyrks. Then ſuppoſing an objection that the poſſeſſours had leaſes and eſtates, they anſwer,that thoſe who made them were thieves and murtherers, and had no power to alienate the common good of the Kyrk.

kyrk

1. (Northern) Alternative form of chirche

kyrk

1. imperative of kyrka and kyrkja

kyrk

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