established church
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6.3
- noun
:
iglesia establecida
- In England, the Anglican Church is the established church recognized by the government.
- authority of the established church
I mean, the Establishment Clause doesn't just, it seems to me, preclude the ability to have an established church.
- I mean, the Establishment Clause doesn't just, it seems to me, preclude the ability to have an established church.
Examples
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In that book, he observed that the public school system is America's only established church.
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Typically, these governments required citizens to pay tithes to support either the government-established church or the church to which the tithepayer belonged.
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Many of them also supported established churches with tax proceeds.
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States and colonies with established churches encountered a further religious accommodation problem.
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Their growth contested the moral and social authority of the established church and the ruling class, which it bolstered.
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Established churches resented the presence of the Baptists, and they made life difficult for them throughout Germany.
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The First Amendment prohibits the creation of an established church and interfering with the free exercise of religion.
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Could Virginia's ruling class safeguard its hegemony if the established church lost its dominant role in religion and morality?
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Simultaneous with the contentious issue of dissenters, the Committee for Religion had to address divisiveness within the established church.
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Throughout the 1930s, the Confessing Church, Deutsche Christen, and moderate pastors struggled for power within the established churches in what has become known as the Kirchenkampf.
Academic text (2018)
How Organized
Surface Forms
Morphology
The constituents 'established' and 'church' allow a learner to infer a church that is set up, accepted, or long-standing, so the broad idea is recoverable from the parts. However, the specific legal/institutional nuance of a state‑recognized or state‑supported 'established church' (the principal national religious institution) is a narrower, technical meaning that a B1 learner may not predict without exposure, so the expression is only partially transparent.
Etymology
Established church comes from the idea that a government established a church by law and gave it money and duties. That's why the phrase means a church 'officially recognized and supported' by the nation.