They are very churchly people, they call themselves religious, but I don't.
Nothing lower in churchly rank than a bishop could keep up that establishment.
He wears his red robes, and one fine, aristocratic hand with the churchly ring on it rests upon the magnificent cat lying on the table beside him.
Now, not to be buried with due and fitting ceremonies and the displayed insignia of some churchly Buryin' Society, is a calamity and a disgrace.
Under the transported aristocracy of churchly power in the state, they shared the undemocratic rule.
Under this Constitution the last vestiges of churchly political rule, and of property-qualification for voting, have gradually disappeared.
The Suffragists profess to hold in abhorrence churchly and polygamous rule.
The harangues were punctuated by occasional bursts of song, not always of a churchly nature, and emphasized by gestures which were more forceful than devout.
In the forced intimacy of a narrow social circle, they had been thrown together often; the churchly relation between Brenton and his senior warden had increased the frequency.
Nevertheless, now that he was at home once more and, to all seeming, candidate for churchly ministrations, Reed found he drew back a little from their meeting.
Such a conception was wholly opposed by theological theory and churchly dogma.
To the contrary, this Church affirms the complete cessation of Divine commission in churchly organizations, and the consequent necessity of a restoration--a new dispensation from the heavens.
He was an Irishman, and had been studying in Wales; where, certainly, there was great activity in churchly circles in those days.
No churchly fulminations might silence his batteries; because he had camouflaged them, and they were not to be seen.
So when the Norsemen came there was no strong secular power to defend the monasteries from them, and the karma of St. Ruadan's churchly arrogance and ambition fell on them.
I think we can recognise here, under a not too thick disguise of churchly phraseology, the philosophy of the Bhagavad-Gita.
Since the word ekklesia conveys the idea of an assembly of "called ones," it expresses beautifully the Christian's call to churchly association.
According to the prophecy, God's true saints will die to ecclesiasticism by forsaking the sect system, but the rule of human churchly power will go right on until the end of time.
He may scorn churchly creeds and cleave to the Golden Rule.
There is yet a fourth entrance from the market-place, which takes one through a sort of cellar which is not in the least churchly and is decidedly unpleasant.
There are also the tombs of thirty-two archbishops,--a veritable valhalla of churchly fame.
In the episcopal palace are a number of fine portraits, which are more a record of manners and customs in dress than they are of churchly history.
Yet even amid such proceedings from various sides, a churchly and evangelical reaction of considerable importance set in.
On the other hand the positive churchly feeling became more and more pronounced in the state church itself.
While some thus assumed a churchly and conservative aspect, others outstripped Strauss, and, uniting with French positivism, advanced into utter pantheism and materialism.
Why King Congo was Late As in all the Spanish Americas, there werechurchly feasts and celebrations in Cuba whose origin has been forgot.
Well," exclaimed Ames, "again I take off my hat to your churchly system!
Yet, without my churchly system, I was taught to believe, he and those who share his thought are damned.
The curse of the world is fear--the chief instrument that you employ to hold the masses to your churchly system.
That he grew to perceive the childishness ofchurchly dogma, we know.
But this is a development which harmonises much more with the old idea of an offering as a communion between God and man than does the other self-sufficing general churchly sacrifice.
Instead of the Ecclesiastical History of the Hexateuch, the Book of Judges forthwith enters upon a secular history completely devoid of all churchly character.
Therefore it must, as a matter of self-preservation, suppress any chance intellect that is ahead of its time, lest this man honeycomb the whole structure of churchly dogma.
He had a passion for gambling, horse-racing, dog-fighting, and indulged in the churchly habit of doing that which he ought not and leaving undone that which he should have done.
The family was prosperous and intelligent, but clung closely to all conventional and churchly lines.
Even the remarks which introduce Dean Church's Oxford Movement, 1891, in which the churchly element is dealt with in deep affection, give anything but an inspiring view.
To my own mind, this obvious direct descent of many a churchly custom or churchly name from the days of the mythical Olympian theocracy is one of the most impressively interesting things about modern Hellas and her people.
Swift wished for churchly preferment, but he had not the patience to wait.
The Dean had affection; he was a warm friend; he was capable even of a degree of love, but his sexual and spiritual nature was so cold and calculating that he did not hesitate to sacrifice love to churchly ambition.
His sermons are models of churchlycommonplace and full of the stock phrases of a formal religion.
What is there to be faithful to--no churchly vows!
He begged Liszt to use his influence in securing the admission of female voices in service of the church because he--Rossini--did not care to hear his churchly compositions sung by croaking boys' voices!
Sgambati in Rome keeps green the memory of the master in his annual recitals; but of the churchlycompositions no one I encountered had ever heard.
No well-bred romance of book and bells and churchlybenediction had ushered her into being.
Folk-stories and churchly legends tell us that the Christ-Child still walks the earth, and appears unto the saints and sinners of this world.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "churchly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
