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KIRK

Volume 6 · 53 words · 1778 Edition

a Saxon term, signifying the same with church.

Kirk-Oswald, a market-town of Cumberland, 12 miles south of Carlisle.

Kirk-Session, an inferior church-jurisdiction in Scotland, consisting of the ministers, elders, and deacons of a parish.

It regulates matters relating to public worship, catechising, visitations, &c., and judges in case of fornication and lesser scandals.