Definition of Meeting house

1. Noun. Columbine of eastern North America having long-spurred red flowers.

Exact synonyms: Aquilegia Canadensis, Honeysuckle
Group relationships: Genus Aquilegia
Generic synonyms: Aquilege, Aquilegia, Columbine

Lexicographical Neighbors of Meeting House

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Literary usage of Meeting house

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell by Thomas Bayly Howell (1816)
"The Trial of Mr. DANIEL TAYLOR,* Preacher in an Episcopal Meeting-House, and others, for not presenting their Letters of Orders, and for not praying for his ..."

2. The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut [1636-1776] by Connecticut, Connecticut General Assembly, Connecticut Council, Council of Safety (Conn.)., James Hammond Trumbull, Charles Jeremy Hoadly (1885)
"about three rods southeasterly from the old meeting-house in said society, the sills of such new meeting-house to include the place where said stake is set; ..."

3. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1908)
"There was no indiscriminate almsgiving, but a constant effort to improve the condition of the poorer members. the meeting-house at Swarthmoor. ..."

4. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register by Henry Fritz-Gilbert Waters (1902)
"April 10, 1787, the following votes were passed in regard to building i present meeting house: " 2ly Voted that the Committee appointed by the Legislature ..."

5. Collections by CT Historical Society (1908)
"... province. and it is further to be Known by ^ vote that ye proprietors of ye old meeting House of ^ Londonderry is to bear all ye Coast and Charges that ..."

6. History of New London, Connecticut: From the First Survey of the Coast in by Frances Manwaring Caulkins, Cecelia Griswold (1895)
"The first meeting-house on this breezy height was erected about 1670. In a new plantation the buildings are necessarily rude and incomplete ; destined soon ..."

7. The Magazine of American History with Notes and Queries by John Austin Stevens, Benjamin Franklin DeCosta, Martha Joanna Lamb, Henry Phelps Johnston, Nathan Gilbert Pond, William Abbatt (1887)
"A HISTORIC MEETING-HOUSE A MEMORIAL AND REMINISCENCE OF THE OLDEN TIMES The sketch of the old meeting-house of the First Baptist Church, Salem Street, ..."

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