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Churched

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Baptized.

To church a woman is to read the appointed service when a woman comes to church to return thanks to God for her “safe deliverance” and restored health.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Chukwa
Chum
Chum in with (To)
Church
Church-goer (A)
Church Invisible (The)
Church Militant
Church Porch (The)
Church Triumphant (The)
Church Visible (The)
Churched
Churchwarden (A)
Churchyard Cough (A)
Chuzzlewit (Martin)
Chyndonax
Ci-devant (French)
Cicero
Cicerone
Cicisbeo [che-chiz-bee-o]
Ciclenius
Cicuta