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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
denominational
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
school
▪ Since the 1830s, these schools, and other denominational schools, had received government grants.
▪ If the practice of subsidising denominational schools is regrettable, in Northern Ireland it is catastrophic.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Many campus Christian organizations cross denominational lines.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Also, in 1974, an adoption Act made it possible for couples of mixed denominational or religious origin to adopt.
▪ He is exploring closer links with Diocesan and other denominational youth bodies which overlap in their aims.
▪ Over 3, 000 responses from congregations, inter-church study groups, denominational theological commissions and executive councils were received.
▪ Since the 1830s, these schools, and other denominational schools, had received government grants.
▪ The conference will also discuss the legalisation of the use and sale of cannabis and whether denominational schooling should be ended.
▪ The total of those favouring denominational schooling in the initial survey was less than one-third.
▪ We do not try to give it a denominational name.
▪ Will the denominational bond overcome the competitive drive of the market economy now introduced into teacher education?
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Denominational

Denominational \De*nom`i*na"tion*al\, a. Pertaining to a denomination, especially to a sect or society. ``Denominational differences.''
--Buckle.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
denominational

1838; see denomination + -al (1).

Wiktionary
denominational

a. Of or pertaining to a denomination

WordNet
denominational

  1. adj. relating to or characteristic of a particular religious denomination; "denominational politics"

  2. adhering or confined to a particular sect or denomination or party; "denominational prejudice" [syn: partisan]

Usage examples of "denominational".

For in the last day, when we shall all appear before Him whose ways are not as our ways, or his thoughts as our thoughts - in that day, the question will not be, whether the compulsory system, or the denominational system, or any other system, satisfied best our sectarian ways and our narrow thoughts: but whether they satisfied the ways of that Father in heaven who willeth not that one little child should perish.

The line dividing these two great classes zigzags its way through the religious community, sometimes following denominational layers and cleavages, sometimes going, like a geological fracture, through many different strata.

You might think it'd be easier if you Came In with 0 in the way of denominational background or preconceptions, you might think it'd be easier to sort of invent a Higher-Powerish God from scratch and then like erect an understanding, but Don Gately complains that this has not been his experience thus far.

But it was odd that a member of the medical profession, which had taken an increasingly agnostic public posture throughout the last few decades, should choose religious art of any kind for his office walls, let alone such obvious denominational art that might offend non-Catholics or nonbelievers.