{"id":41787,"date":"2025-01-17T14:56:28","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T20:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=41787"},"modified":"2025-01-17T14:56:28","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T20:56:28","slug":"word-of-the-day-1017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2025\/01\/17\/word-of-the-day-1017\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vestry<\/em>:<\/p>\n

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  1. a room in or attached to a church in which vestments, sacred vessels, etc, are kept<\/li>\n
  2. a room in or attached to some churches, used for Sunday school, meetings, etc<\/li>\n
  3. Church of England<\/em>\n
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    1. a meeting of all the members of a parish or their representatives, to transact the official business of the parish<\/li>\n
    2. the body of members meeting for this; the parish council<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n
    3. Episcopal Church, Anglican Church<\/em>
      \na committee of vestrymen chosen by the congregation to manage the temporal affairs of their church [Collins Dictionary<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>\n

      Yes, yes, quite ignorant am I. Noted in “Minister accused of sex abuse landed one high-profile job after another<\/em><\/a>,” Ian Shapira, WaPo<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n

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      The revelations about Taylor have\u00a0<\/b>shocked some Falls Church Episcopal alumni and validated the long-held suspicions of other former church\u00a0<\/b>families. The church, which originated in the 1730s, belonged to a parish or governing body whose vestry once included George Washington. During the Civil War,\u00a0the Union used the church as a hospital<\/a>. A new church report, though,\u00a0revealed<\/a>\u00a0that its rectors and vestrymen held about 750 enslaved people in bondage between the 1730s and 1860s.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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