Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A church edifice: so called by the early members of the Society of Friends, who maintained that the word church applies properly only to the body of believers.
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Examples
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At length the rude people of the city rose, and came with staves and stones into the steeple-house crying,
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The priest got away, and the magistrates desired me to go out of the steeple-house.
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The power of the Lord was dreadful amongst them in the steeple-house, so that the people trembled and shook, and they thought the steeple-house shook: and some of them feared it would fall down on their heads.
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Whereupon the governor sent a file or two of musketeers into the steeple-house, to appease the tumult, and commanded all the other soldiers out.
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'I was moved of the Lord to go to Beverley steeple-house, which was a place of high profession.
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In the morning, my clothes being still wet, I got ready, and, having paid for what I had, went up to the steeple-house where was a man preaching.
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George Fox says, 'On a Lecture Day I was moved to go to Ulverston steeple-house, where there was an abundance of professors and priests, [12] and people.
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It was only a steeple-house; they themselves were the true church, their own souls and bodies were the temples chosen by the Spirit of God for His habitation.
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This relation Justice Hotham gave me afterwards, and then I gave him an account that I had been that day at Beverley steeple-house and had declared truth to the priest and people there. '
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_'By the year 1654 "the man with the leather breeches" as he was called, had become a celebrity throughout England, with scattered converts and adherents everywhere, but voted a pest and a terror by the public authorities, the regular steeple-house clergy, whether Presbyterian or
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