Used in a Sentence

congregational

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for congregational.

Editorial note

The workday challenge also means that the congregational prayer is not in your home community, it is whatever is closest to your office.

Examples17
Definitions2
Parts of speech1

Quick take

Of or pertaining to a congregation.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of congregational gathered in one view.

adjective

Of or pertaining to a congregation.

adjective

Of or pertaining to Congregationalism, Congregationalists or a Congregational church

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for congregational.

adjective

Of or pertaining to a congregation.

adjective

Of or pertaining to Congregationalism, Congregationalists or a Congregational church

Example sentences

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The workday challenge also means that the congregational prayer is not in your home community, it is whatever is closest to your office.

2

Look at all the congregational hearings about Facebook and other large tech companies, or the endless anti threats against google.

3

This is a very helpful aid to congregational singing, to cue everyone in on the key, tempo, and melody being used.

4

Neither Amish Hospital Aid nor congregational alms funding cover health care needs that result from prohibited activities within the Amish community.

5

Just like you can ask your congregational members about their occupations - you can ask your online friends about theirs as well!

6

The other half more or less follow a normal low church formula, with congregational singing, bible readings, and one or more sermons.

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Folk and rock both tend not to work well as a format for congregational music although the former works better in my opinion.

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I think it's more likely the old composers took the old part names and adapted them to congregational music.

9

In a narrow sense, it is the main congregational prayer hall in that complex, the current building of which was constructed in the 1030s.

10

Before states got rid of established churches, Virginia, for instance, established the Episcopal church, while Massachusetts established the Congregational church.

11

I record hymns in congregational style, as the traditional pianists used to play for church services.

12

I'd agree that church volunteers really do bring costs down though -- and congregational volunteering is just really healthy in general.

Quote examples

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For instance, if you didn't know better, you would think that the words "naive" and "nave" (said "nāv", the congregational of a traditional church) were homophones.

2

The article fails to mention that although these megachurches are “nondenominational” they mostly line up with a combination of Baptist (specially baptism only for professing believers by immersion) and Presbyterian (a board of elders run the church instead of congregational style) theological and ecclesiastical slants maybe with some Pentacostal practices.

3

You are entitled to your opinion and Trudeau to his, all I'm saying is that it's a bit callous to characterize a large number of people as "shallow" or buying into a meme (the thing about loving americanisms) on the same breath as claiming it's a quilt (the implication of which is that there are significant congregational, not-americanized bubbles).

4

The reason that fairly narrow "Presbyterian, Reformed, Congregational" topic has one DDS code and an extremely wide "Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikkhism and other religions of Indian origin" topic has one DDS code is simple: an average library has similar book-width for both topics.

Proper noun examples

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Congregational religion is one of the most tragically trampled upon secular fences.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use congregational in a sentence?

The workday challenge also means that the congregational prayer is not in your home community, it is whatever is closest to your office.

What does congregational mean?

Of or pertaining to a congregation.

What part of speech is congregational?

congregational is commonly used as adjective.