VESTRY
\vˈɛstɹi], \vˈɛstɹi], \v_ˈɛ_s_t_ɹ_i]\
Definitions of VESTRY
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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in the Protestant Episcopal Church: a committee elected by the congregation to work with the churchwardens in managing the temporal affairs of the church
By Princeton University
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in the Protestant Episcopal Church: a committee elected by the congregation to work with the churchwardens in managing the temporal affairs of the church
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A room appendant to a church, in which sacerdotal vestments and sacred utensils are sometimes kept, and where meetings for worship or parish business are held; a sacristy; - formerly called revestiary.
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A parochial assembly; an assembly of persons who manage parochial affairs; - so called because usually held in a vestry.
By Oddity Software
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A room appendant to a church, in which sacerdotal vestments and sacred utensils are sometimes kept, and where meetings for worship or parish business are held; a sacristy; - formerly called revestiary.
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A parochial assembly; an assembly of persons who manage parochial affairs; - so called because usually held in a vestry.
By Noah Webster.
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A room in a church where the clergy put on their vestments or robes; also, in some Protestant churches, a room or building attached to a church, and used as a chapel, Sunday-school room, etc.; in the Protestant Episcopal Church, a body of men who direct or govern the affairs of a parish.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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In the R. C. and Episcopal Churches, a room adjoining a church, in which the vestments are kept and parochial meetings held: in the Episcopal Church, an assembly of the managers of parochial affairs.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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