church book

noun

1. any of various books commonly used by a church, as a service book or a parish register.

Word History and Origins

Origin of church book¹

before 1050; Middle English, Old English

Example Sentences

The number of names entered in the Church-book, as we consider by the hand of Doddridge, is 342.

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It is uncertain in what year the Church was formed, as the first entry in the oldest Church-book is without date.

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The Yarmouth church book records a resolution to fix the church at Norwich for the present.

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And to while away the time he had borrowed a church book from the old lady, and was holding it wrong side upwards.

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Kalle has looked it up in the church-book, and from that I ought to be almost eighty; but that can scarcely be right.

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