Chapter Chouse to Clash of C by Soule's Synonymes

3. Ecclesiastical authority (as distinguished from that of the State).

Churchman, n.

1. Ecclesiastic, clergyman, minister, pastor, divine, priest.

2. Episcopalian, Conformist.

Churchyard, n. Burying-ground, burial-ground, graveyard, cemetery, necropolis. God’s acre.

Churl, n.

1. Rustic, peasant, countryman, clod-hopper, bumpkin, ploughman, clown.

2. Ill-bred man, surly fellow.

3. Niggard, miser, skinflint, scrimp, curmudgeon, hunks, mean fellow.

Churlish, a.

1. Rude, harsh, brusque, uncivil, impolite, rough, brutish, surly, cynical, snarling, snappish, waspish.

2. Crabbed, morose, sullen, ill-tempered.

3. Niggardly, miserly, close, close-fisted, sordid, penurious, stingy, mean, illiberal.

Churlishness, n.

1. Rudeness, incivility, roughness, brutishness.

2. Crabbedness, moroseness, sullenness, tartness, acrimony, acerbity. asperity, harshness, bitterness, ill-temper.

3. Niggardliness, stinginess, penuriousness, closeness, meanness, miserliness, sordidness, close-fistedness.

Churn, v. a.

1. Agitate, jostle violently, cause to foam.

2. Produce by churning.