Crossword clues for meetinghouse
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Meetinghouse \Meet"ing*house`\, n. A house used as a place of worship; a church; -- in England, applied only to a house so used by Dissenters.
Wiktionary
alt. 1 A building where people meet for a purpose. 2 A building where a Quaker congregation assembles for worship. n. 1 A building where people meet for a purpose. 2 A building where a Quaker congregation assembles for worship.
WordNet
n. a building for religious assembly (especially Nonconformists, e.g., Quakers) [syn: conventicle]
Usage examples of "meetinghouse".
They heard a strange voice from within her and sent someone to the meetinghouse for her father.
Rebecca Nurse and Dorcas Good were taken to jail, the villagers remained in the meetinghouse to listen to the Thursday lecture day sermon from their former pastor, Deodat Lawson, hoping for an explanation of their crisis.
Cloyce, a sister of Rebecca Nurse, stood and then walked out of the meetinghouse, the door slamming shut behind her.
Constables took the accused to the meetinghouse for public questioning.
They claimed that she had stormed out of the meetinghouse to avoid the Christian communion.
Sarah lived with her husband, Peter, on a farm about two miles from the meetinghouse in Salem Village.
As soon as the constable brought her into the meetinghouse, the afflicted fell to the floor in fits.
The magistrates granted her permission to leave the meetinghouse to recover the tools of her witchcraft.
The examination of Candy abruptly ended when another of the afflicted raced from the meetinghouse and headed for the river.
Unconvinced, the magistrates ordered the accused and the afflicted to go outside of the meetinghouse where they had several men stand in a circle with Alden.
In 1676, fire destroyed almost fifty homes and several other structures, including North Meetinghouse and the parsonage of Increase Mather.
The eighty-year-old Jacobs, who owned a farm about two miles south of the Salem Village meetinghouse, had lived in Salem for over thirty years.
Sarah, had stormed from the meetinghouse and subsequently faced witchcraft charges.
It was in some sense a consecrated cargo, for the lumber was intended for a new Baptist meetinghouse in southern New Jersey.
I remarked about the little brick meetinghouse on the hill at Newaggen.