churchwarden
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9.3
- noun
- /ˈtʃɜːrtʃˌwɔːrdən/
- UK
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mayordomo de la iglesia
- The churchwarden organized a community event to raise funds for the church's maintenance.
Examples
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Not only did the churchwarden refuse to pay Poyer, but they also refused to obey a magistrate's warrant to pay him.
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In Brittany, its adoption can be seen through churchwardens' accounts from the 1580s and particularly from the 1610s onwards.
Academic text (2018) -
The magistrates therefore ordered the churchwarden to answer in court for the refusal.
Academic text (1990) -
Jamison argued that the magistrates failed to follow due process in issuing their warrant ordering the churchwarden to pay the minister's rate to Poyer.
Academic text (1990) -
Outside OUP, Combe was a churchwarden, and he felt a similar Christian beacon should be shone across the road in Jericho.
Blog text (3) -
Constables, churchwardens, and sidemen were to patrol during divine service, especially where they suspect lewd and debauched company to frequent.
Academic text (2007) -
Bickley countered by arguing that the magistrates had followed the law, as well as a recent decision of New York's Supreme Court of Judicature, in issuing the warrant after the churchwarden initially refused to pay Poyer.
Academic text (1990) -
The law directed local magistrates on the second Tuesday of each January to call the freeholders in each of the six precincts to elect ten vestrymen and two churchwardens "to lay a reasonable tax on the respective city, county, or precinct for the maintenance of the minister and poor of their respective places." 11
Academic text (1990) -
What they objected to were taxes for the Anglican Rev. Thomas Poyer, whom the majority of Jamaica's freeholders had not voted to support and whom their elected vestrymen and churchwarden had not selected as the parish's established minister.
Academic text (1990) -
It fined the churchwarden, removed them from office, and appointed a new churchwarden—all as provided for in the 1693 act and in the 1703 and 1705 revisions.
Academic text (1990)
Synonyms
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9.2
A church worker who looks after the building and rings the bell
A person who has an official job in a church and helps lead it
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word churchwarden combines church and warden, where warden means 'guardian', as in 'park warden' or 'prison warden'. So a churchwarden is someone who looks after the church building and its practical affairs.