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Western Church
(gcide) | Western \West"ern\, a.
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1. Of or pertaining to the west; situated in the west, or in
the region nearly in the direction of west; being in that
quarter where the sun sets; as, the western shore of
France; the western ocean.
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Far o'er the glowing western main. --Keble.
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2. Moving toward the west; as, a ship makes a western course;
coming from the west; as, a western breeze.
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Western Church. See Latin Church, under Latin.
Western empire (Hist.), the western portion of the Roman
empire, as divided, by the will of Theodosius the Great,
between his sons Honorius and Arcadius, a. d. 395.
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western church
(wn) | Western Church
n 1: the Christian Church based in the Vatican and presided over
by a pope and an episcopal hierarchy [syn: {Roman
Catholic}, Western Church, Roman Catholic Church,
Church of Rome, Roman Church] |
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