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Thread: New Wineskins Dictionary (Supplement)
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Chorister
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Words pertaining to church architecture and theology can often sound rather strange. Some of these have been put together with suitable 'explanations' rather in the way 'The Meaning of Liff' did with place names.
An example can be found here, with further links in the A-Z at the top of the page. It occurred to me that many possible words are missing and that shipmates, with their wide experience of churchy words from all denominations and areas of church life, could supplement this list.
For example, I fancy apse must mean 'A program you can access on your mobile phone to tell you the purpose and history of each area of a church or cathedral while you walk around on your visit'.
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Lyda*Rose
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paraclete n- divinity with feathers sometimes mistaken for a budgie.
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"Dear God, whose name I do not know - thank you for my life. I forgot how BIG... thank you. Thank you for my life." ~from Joe Vs the Volcano
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Bene Gesserit
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Nave n- An unruly altar boy or young, male member of the congregation.
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Sancta Maria, Mater Dei, ora pro nobis peccatoribus
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Lyda*Rose
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rosary n- a circle of parishioners with green thumbs
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"Dear God, whose name I do not know - thank you for my life. I forgot how BIG... thank you. Thank you for my life." ~from Joe Vs the Volcano
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L'organist
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chasuble n a musical game of tag played by choristers and altar boys
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Rara temporum felicitate ubi sentire quae velis et quae sentias dicere licet
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Chorister
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Vestry n - a cold, often leaky Victorian adjunct to the main church where you always need to wear an extra layer of undergarments to stay warm and, on particularly windy and rainy days, a mackintosh as well....
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Lord Jestocost
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Pew - one of a team of fearless firefighters hailing from Trumptonshire.
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L'organist
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Verger n church official tasked with dampening the ardour of young worshippers inflamed with unsuitable passions mid-service
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Bob Two-Owls
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Baldacchino - somewhere where men of a certain age hang around in out-of-date casual wear...
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Schroedinger's cat
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Suplice - no longer needed. Also applies to many other aspects of church life.
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take out this broken heart and renew my mind.
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Ariel
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Baldacchino (2). A small after-church cafe au lait, reputedly made so strong that your hair briefly stands up on end, then falls out.
Flying Buttress. An old medieval superstition. On particularly windy winter nights, the Buttress would swoop around the vicinity of the local church, flapping her dark wings and seizing any hapless victim she might find in her long claws, before depositing him somewhere inaccessible just before daybreak. Usually, it took at least 20 men with long ladders to rescue the unfortunate victim.
Vestry. See Trousery, Shirtery, etc.
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Piglet
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Spem in alium - 40-part motet by Tallis thanking God for garlic.
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I may not be on an island any more, but I'm still an islander.
alto n a soprano who can read music
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Lyda*Rose
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Gloria- a hymn of praise that became...well, Gloria and then Gloria and so on...
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"Dear God, whose name I do not know - thank you for my life. I forgot how BIG... thank you. Thank you for my life." ~from Joe Vs the Volcano
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Chorister
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Gumble - the rather expectant state of a group of fresh-faced, jostling, extrovert youths when awaiting a manifestation of the power of the Spirit, as in 'Let's get ready to Gumble'.
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