Chapter Words Relating to the Sentient and Moral Powers of Index by Roget's Thesaurus

Temporality, secularisation.

A layman, parishioner.

(Verb). To secularise.

(Adjectives). Secular, lay, laical, civil, temporal, profane.

• Rite (Substantives), ceremony, ordinance, observance, cult, formulary, ceremonial, solemnity, sacrament.

Baptism, christening, chrism, baptismal regeneration.

Confirmation, imposition or laying on of hands.

The Eucharist, the Lord's Supper, the communion, the sacrament, consubstantiation.

Matrimony 903, burial 363, visitation of the sick, etc., offertory, etc.

Roman Catholic rites and ceremonies: Mass, high mass, low mass, dry mass; matins, vespers; the seven sacraments, transubstantiation, impanation, extreme unction, viaticum, invocation of saints, canonisation, transfiguration, auricular confession, maceration, flagellation, sackcloth and ashes, telling of beads, etc.

Relics, rosary, beads, reliquary, pix (or pyx), host, crucifix, Agnus Dei, etc., censer, patera.

Liturgy, ritual, euchology, book of common prayer, litany, etc.; rubric, breviary, missal, processional, etc.

Service, duty, ministration, psalmody, etc. (see 990); preaching, predication; sermon, homily, lecture, discourse.

(Verbs). To perform service, do duty, minister, officiate; to baptise, dip, sprinkle, etc.; to confirm, lay hands on, etc.; to give or administer the sacrament; to take or receive the sacrament; to communicate.

To preach, sermonise, predicate, lecture.

(Adjectives). Ritual, ceremonial, baptismal, eucharistical, etc.

• Canonicals (Substantives), vestments, robe, gown, pallium, surplice, cassock, cope, soutane, scapulary, tonsure, cowl, hood, calotte, bands, etc.

Mitre, tiara, triple crown, crosier.

• Place of worship, house of God.

Temple (Substantives), cathedral, pro-cathedral, minster, church, kirk, chapel, meeting-house, tabernacle, conventicle, bethesda, little Bethel, basilica, fane, holy place, chantry.

Synagogue, mosque, pantheon, pagoda, joss-house, etc., dagobah, tope.

Parsonage, rectory, vicarage, manse, presbytery, deanery, bishop's palace.

Altar, shrine, sanctuary, sanctum sanctorum, the Holy of Holies, sacristy, communion table, baptistery, font, holy table, table of the Lord.

Chancel, choir, nave, aisle, transept, vestry, crypt, stall, pew, pulpit, ambo, reading-desk, confessional, prothesis, credence.

Monastery, priory, abbey, convent, nunnery, cloister.

(Adjectives). Claustral, monastic, monasterial, conventual.