"Vestries" is a word in ENGLISH
of Vestry
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In English ecclesiastical law. An inferior parish officer, who is chosen b.v the vestry, and whose business is to attend …
Read the complete definitionIn Saxon law. An ecclesiastical assembly or court Spelman. A synod or meeting in a church or vestry. 4 Inst …
Read the complete definitionThe apartment, in a church or temple, where the vestments, etc., are kept; -- now contracted into vestry.
Read the complete definitionAn apartment in a church where the sacred utensils, vestments, etc., are kept; a vestry.
Read the complete definitionA wardrobe; a robing room; a vestry.
Read the complete definitionA room appendant to a church, in which sacerdotal vestments and sacred utensils are sometimes kept, and where meetings for …
Read the complete definitionA parochial assembly; an assembly of persons who manage parochial affairs; -- so called because usually held in a vestry.
Read the complete definitionA body, composed of wardens and vestrymen, chosen annually by a parish to manage its temporal concerns.
Read the complete definitionIn eccleslastlcal law. The place in a church where the priest's vestures are deposited. Also an assembly of the mln-ister, …
Read the complete definitionA member of a vestry; especially (Prot. Epis. Ch.), a member other than a warden. See Vestry.
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