chirche

chirche (plural chirches)

1. Obsolete spelling of church

• cherch, cherche, chirch, church, churche, chyrch, chyrche, kirke, kyrk, kyrke
• chireche, circe, cyrce (Early Middle English)

From Old English ċiriċe, from Proto-West Germanic *kirikā, borrowed from Ancient Greek κυριακόν (kuriakón).

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃirt͡ʃ(ə)/
• (Northern) IPA^(key): /kirk/

chirche (plural chirches or chirchen)

1. church, cathedral
   • p. 1154, “AD 1137”, in Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (MS. Laud Misc. 636, continuation), Peterborough, folio 89, verso; republished at Oxford: Digital Bodleian, 2018 February 8:

     Foꝛ ouer ſithon ne · foꝛ baren. hi nouther circe ne cyrceiard. oc namen al þe god ð þar inne ƿaſ. ⁊ brenden ſythen þe cyrce ⁊ al te gædere.

     Because after a while, they spared neither churches or churchyards, but stole all the valuables within them before burning the church and everything in it.

2. temple, synagogue
3. clergy, priests
4. religious organisation or community
5. Christendom, the whole of Christianity
6. The Roman Catholic Church
7. A regional branch of Christianity

• parische chirche

• English: church
• Geordie English: chorch, kirk
• Scots: kirk
• Yola: chourch

• “chirche, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-26.