Churching

The act or form of offering thanks in church after childbirth; as, the churching of women. Church'ism, n. Fanaticism, or ultra-attachment to the forms or tenets of some particular Church. Church'-judicatories, n. pl. ( Eccl. Hist.) A term ciates; patriarchal , where the government of the church is vested in a patriarch; metropolitan , when it is the see of an archbishop: cathedral , where a bishop presides; collegiate, when the building in question is attached to a college: parochial , when it is attached to a parish; applied to designate the ecclesiastical courts of the and conventual, when it is attached to a convent. (Hist.) See CHRISTIANITY. Church, FREDERIC EDWIN, an eminent American artist, Church of Scotland; viz., kirk -se ions; presbyteries; provincial synods; and general a emblies.