churchwarden
churchwarden
Definition
church·warden (-wôrd′'n)
churchwarden
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- appoint: This parish did not appoint any churchwardens, and when the necessity arose of doing something in the church the parishioners did it themselves.
- become: In 1916 Miss Hogg became the first woman churchwarden at St Paul's Church, Church Rd St Leonards.
- have: The parish had two churchwardens from the 15th century 22 and they represented the same tithings as the constables.
- elect: From the mid-nineteenth century onwards, the Archdeaconry kept records of churchwardens elected in each parish.
- choose: The first of the six years cannot commence until the churchwardens chosen at the annual meetings in 2002 take up their office.
Converse of subject
- distribute: The £ 10 belonging to eight poor persons of this parish is distributed by the churchwardens in weekly doles of bread.
- make: Complaints about someone had to be made by churchwardens and overseers within forty days before a magistrate.
Adjective modifier
- former: Near to the other end of the row lived Ralph Waterson, also a former churchwarden.
- new: At the Easter Visitations, new churchwardens for each parish were sworn in to act during the following year.
- senior: He was involved in the rebuilding of the Stoke Church where he was senior churchwarden and donated £ 500 to the new building.
Modifies a noun
- account: Churchwardens Accounts are the most valuable of parochial records for the wealth of information on such a diverse range of topics.
Possessives
- account: The churchwardens ' accounts contain several very curious entries.
- presentment: Churchwardens ' presentments only survive from the late 18th century onwards.
- name: When the bell was re-cast in 1984, the incumbent vicar and churchwardens ' names were added to its waist.
- initial: On the wall is a stone dated 1611, with what are thought to be churchwarden's initials.
Preposition: of
- parish: You need to contact the incumbent or churchwardens of the appropriate parishes for further details.
- church: Cromwell required the minister and churchwardens of each parish church to maintain registers of all baptisms, marriages and burials performed.
Preposition: for
Browse dictionary entries near churchwarden
- churchman
- churchly
- Churchill Falls
- Churchill
- churchgoer
- Church Slavonic
- Church of Rome
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- Church of England
- Church of Christ, Scientist
- churchwoman
- churchy
- churchyard
- churl
- churlish
- churlishness
- churn
- churning
- churr
- chute
