Congregation ¹

Definition: The act of congregating, or bringing together, or of collecting into one aggregate or mass.

Congregation ²

Definition: A collection or mass of separate things.

Congregation ³

Definition: An assembly of persons; a gathering; esp. an assembly of persons met for the worship of God, and for religious instruction; a body of people who habitually so meet.

Congregation ⁴

Definition: The whole body of the Jewish people; called also Congregation of the Lord.

Congregation ⁵

Definition: A body of cardinals or other ecclesiastics to whom as intrusted some department of the church business; as, the Congregation of the Propaganda, which has charge of the missions of the Roman Catholic Church.

Congregation ⁶

Definition: A company of religious persons forming a subdivision of a monastic order.

Congregation ⁷

Definition: The assemblage of Masters and Doctors at Oxford or Cambrige University, mainly for the granting of degrees.

Congregation ⁸

Definition: the name assumed by the Protestant party under John Knox. The leaders called themselves Lords of the Congregation.

congregation ⁹

Definition: the act of congregating

congregation ¹⁰

Definition: an assemblage of people or animals or things collected together; "a congregation of children pleaded for his autograph"; "a great congregation of birds flew over"

congregation ¹¹

Definition: a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church