Congregation is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CONGREGATION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• an organized body of believers in a particular locality
• a group of people assembled for religious worship
• a group of people regularly attending a particular place of worship
• a gathering or collection of people, animals, or things
• the action of gathering together in a crowd
• (in the Roman Catholic Church) a permanent committee of the College of Cardinals
• (in some universities) a general assembly of resident senior members.
• a group of people obeying a common religious rule but under less solemn vows than members of the older religious orders
• a group of communities within a religious order sharing particular historical or regional links.
• a flock of plovers
• The act of congregating, or bringing together, or of collecting into one aggregate or mass.
• A collection or mass of separate things.
• An assembly of persons; a gathering; esp. an assembly of persons met for the worship of God, and for religious instruction; a body of people who habitually so meet.
• The whole body of the Jewish people; -- called also Congregation of the Lord.
• A body of cardinals or other ecclesiastics to whom as intrusted some department of the church business; as, the Congregation of the Propaganda, which has charge of the missions of the Roman Catholic Church.
• A company of religious persons forming a subdivision of a monastic order.
• The assemblage of Masters and Doctors at Oxford or Cambrige University, mainly for the granting of degrees.
• the name assumed by the Protestant party under John Knox. The leaders called themselves (1557) Lords of the Congregation.
• a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church
• an assemblage of people or animals or things collected together
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• an assembly of persons; gathering; an assembly of persons met for worship and religious instruction; a religious community; as; an organized body of believers in a particular locality; a Roman Catholic religious institute with only simple vows; a group of monasteries forming an independent subdivision of an order

Words related to CONGREGATION

congregations17 dicastery15

Words that contain CONGREGATION

congregations17 congregational18 congregationali19 congregationalist21 congregationalism23 congregationalists22 congregationalisms24

How to use CONGREGATION in a sentence

• His interpretations of the Scriptures were generally entirely original, and were made to suit the needs, or what he supposed to be the needs, of his congregation.
• Yet had I lever in the congregation to speak five words with my mind to the information of other, rather than ten thousand words with the tongue.
• Being placed under the eye of the congregation, his condition was pitiable in the extreme.
• Burnett has since become a charge, has a good Church edifice and a strong congregation.
• There was so much intelligence in the countenances of the people, that we could scarcely believe we were looking on a congregation of lately emancipated slaves.
• In Rome the congregation gave up its rights to its elders, and these rights the elders surrendered to the single ruler or Bishop.
• Her death set the lords of the congregation free to carry out their ecclesiastical programme.
• Even at the present day a single preacher is generally sufficient to minister to a single congregation.
• Where a congregation had more than one preaching elder, the case was different.
• The congregation so increased in number the pews were not sufficient to seat the audience and benches were used in the aisles.
• Silent was all that congregation, as if assembled in divine worship.
• The preponderance was slightly in favor of the first church and congregation, of which Baron Avedis was pastor.
• Last night when the congregation stood up to pray, the row was out of line, and it is not permissible to follow a different leader.
• On another occasion, on September 17, at the request of the Venerable Archdeacon Wilberforce, He addressed the congregation of St.
• If the leaders of the Congregation, therefore, were not to lose all the ground they had lately gained, a time for vigorous action had again come.
• The congregation assembled three times on Sunday, and there was family prayer in almost every house.
• The Republic was perpetually at strife with the congregation of monks and the assembly of the faithful.
• Theodore Fliedner was pastor of a congregation of operatives in Kaiserswerth, in 1826.
• It had not been thought best to ask the congregation to sing.
• They in turn lead others to Jesus until there are enough to establish a congregation of the church of God at whatever point they live.
• We heard this minister say that he could spare thirty families from his congregation to build up a new church.
• It had been expected that the collection after the sermon would be much larger than usual, because the congregation was much larger than usual.
• Thus the congregation on Christmas morning is mostly a Tussaud collection of celebrities who have been born in the neighbourhood.
• The congregation was broken up in 1887 and the library disappeared.
• Washington Hall was the only place of public congregation, excepting the churches, in the village.
• Then they asked both Buddha and the congregation on the morrow to accept their poor religious offerings.
• In April days in this cemetery The dead people gathered all about me, And grew still, like a congregation in silent prayer.
• We have a congregation in which the majority are carnal men.
• The congregation stands throughout even the longest service, and seems to be wholly absorbed in devotion.

Similar words containing NGREGA without suffix tion and without prefix co

congregant14 congregate14 congregants15 congregated16 congregates15 congregator15 congregating17 congregative19 congregators16 congregations17 nongregarious15 congregational18 congregationali19 congregationalist21 congregationalism23 congregationalists22 congregationalisms24

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