Index of English words, starting with "co"

(1) - Congregate (v. i.) To come together; to assemble; to meet.
(2) - Congregate (v. t.) To collect into an assembly or assemblage; to assemble; to bring into one place, or into a united body; to gather together; to mass; to compact.
(3) - Congregate (a.) Collected; compact; close.

(1) - Congregation (n.) the name assumed by the Protestant party under John Knox. The leaders called themselves (1557) Lords of the Congregation.
(2) - Congregation (n.) The assemblage of Masters and Doctors at Oxford or Cambrige University, mainly for the granting of degrees.
(3) - Congregation (n.) A company of religious persons forming a subdivision of a monastic order.
(4) - 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.
(5) - Congregation (n.) The whole body of the Jewish people; -- called also Congregation of the Lord.
(6) - 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.
(7) - Congregation (n.) A collection or mass of separate things.
(8) - Congregation (n.) The act of congregating, or bringing together, or of collecting into one aggregate or mass.

(1) - Congregational (a.) Belonging to the system of Congregationalism, or to Congregationalist; holding to the faith and polity of Congregationalism; as, a Congregational church.
(2) - Congregational (a.) Of or pertaining to a congregation; conducted, or participated in, by a congregation; as, congregational singing.

(1) - Congregationalism (n.) The faith and polity of the Congregational churches, taken collectively.
(2) - Congregationalism (n.) That system of church organization which vests all ecclesiastical power in the assembled brotherhood of each local church.

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