Congregation :: Congregation (n.) The act of congregating, or bringing together, or of collecting into one aggregate or mass..

Congregation :: Congregation (n.) A collection or mass of separate things.

Congregation :: Congregation (n.) 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..

Congregation :: Congregation (n.) The whole body of the Jewish people; -- called also Congregation of the Lord.

Congregation :: Congregation (n.) 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..

Congregation :: Congregation (n.) A company of religious persons forming a subdivision of a monastic order.

Congregation :: Congregation (n.) The assemblage of Masters and Doctors at Oxford or Cambrige University, mainly for the granting of degrees..

Congregation :: Congregation (n.) the name assumed by the Protestant party under John Knox. The leaders called themselves (1557) Lords of the Congregation.

Congregational :: Congregational (a.) Of or pertaining to a congregation; conducted, or participated in, by a congregation; as, congregational singing..

Congregational :: Congregational (a.) Belonging to the system of Congregationalism, or to Congregationalist; holding to the faith and polity of Congregationalism; as, a Congregational church..

Congregationalism :: Congregationalism (n.) That system of church organization which vests all ecclesiastical power in the assembled brotherhood of each local church.

Congregationalism :: Congregationalism (n.) The faith and polity of the Congregational churches, taken collectively..

Congregationalist :: Congregationalist (n.) One who belongs to a Congregational church or society; one who holds to Congregationalism.

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