Monday, May 9, 2016

Medieval Vocabulary Part 3

For this week, our social studies teacher assigned u 27 more words to define. Most of these words I don't know what the meanings are, so this will be interesting. We also have to search how to build an medieval abbey and see what a medieval church looks like.


Roman Catholic Church: the Christian church of which the pope, or bishop of Rome, is the supreme head.

Pope: the bishop of Rome as head of the Roman Catholic Church.

Cardinal: Roman Catholic Church. a high ecclesiastic appointed by the pope to the College of Cardinals and ranking above every other ecclesiastic but the pope.

Archbishop: a bishop of the highest rank who presides over an archibshopric or archdiocese.

Bishop: a person who supervises a number of local churches or a diocese, being in the Greek, Roman Catholic, Anglican, and other churches a member of the highest order of the ministry.

priest: a person whose office it is to perform religious rites, and especially to make sacraficial offerings.

monk: (in Christianity) a man who has withdrawn from the world
 for religious reasons, especially as a member of an order of 
cenobites living according to a particular rule and under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience.

nun: a woman member of a religious order, especially one bound by vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience.

clergy: the group or body of ordained persons in a religion, as distinguished from the laity.

cathedral: the principal church of a diocese, containing the bishop's throne.

church: a building for public Christian worship.

monastery: a house or place of residence occupied by a community of persons, especially monks, living in seclusion under religious vows.

mendicant: a member of any of several orders of friars that 
originally forbade ownership of property, subsisting mostly on alms.

friar: Roman Catholic Church. a member of a religious order, especially the mendicant orders of Franciscans, Dominicans, Carmelites, and Augustinians.

abbey: a monastery under the supervision of an abbot or a convent under the supervision of an abbess.

abbot: a man who is the head or superior, usually elected, of a monastery.

abbess: a woman who is the superior of a convent of nuns.

nunnery: a building or group of buildings for nuns; convent.

sacraments: Ecclesiastical. a visible sign of an inward grace, especially one of the solemn Christian rites considered to have 
been instituted by Jesus Christ to symbolize or confer grace: the 
sacraments of the Protestant churches are baptism and the Lord's Supper; the sacraments of the  matrimony, penance, holy orders, and 
extreme unction.

baptism: Ecclesiastical. a ceremonial immersion in water, or application of water, as an initiatory rite or sacrament of the Christian church.

eucharist: the sacrament of Holy Communion; the sacrifice of the Mass; the Lord's Supper.

confirmation: a rite administered to baptized persons, in some
 churches as sacrament for confirming and strengthening the recipient   in the Christian faith, in others as a rite without sacramental 
character by which the recipient is admitted to full communion with the church.

matrimony: the rite, ceremony, or sacrament of marriage.

Holy Orders: (used with a plural verbthe major degrees or grades of the Christian ministry.

Penance: a sacrament, as in the Roman Catholic Church, consisting in a confession of sin, made with sorrow and with the intention of amendment, followed by the forgiveness of the sin.

Extreme unction: anointing of the sick.

New Testament: 
the covenant between God and humans in which the dispensation of grace is revealed through Jesus Christ.






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