church invisible

American  

noun

Theology.

1. the entire body of Christian believers on earth and in heaven.

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Etymology

Origin of church invisible

First recorded in 1840–50

Example Sentences

The secret invisible key to the tyrant’s Chamber of Dreams is a literally transparent fiction.

From The Guardian • Oct. 5, 2016

Kenzo Okada has�at the age of 60�a secret, invisible, inexhaustible and almost magic source of images for his painting: memories of his dreams when he was young.

From Time Magazine Archive

Yet for this adequate cause we are at the same time referred to a belief in a causeless secret invisible agent, and to our own experience, for a proof of his nature.

From Answer to Dr. Priestley's Letters to a Philosophical Unbeliever by Turner, Matthew

It had sprung, not out of this crime or that, but out of the secret invisible roots of humanity, and it was widening to the limits of evolution itself.

From The Pretty Lady by Bennett, Arnold

But the girl Marilyn's eyes were far away as if she were drinking strange knowledge at a secret invisible source, and she seemed to have forgotten their presence.

From The City of Fire by Hill, Grace Livingston