of or for a lord or master: esp. belonging to the Lord (Christ); Κ. δεῖπνον the Lord's Supper, ἡ κυριακὴ ἡμέρα the LORD'S day, dies Dominica, NTest. (Assumed to be original of the Teutonic kirk, kirche, church; but how this Greek name came to be adopted by the Northern nations, rather than the Roman name ecclesia, has not been satisfactorily explained.)
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