Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Scots A church.
- noun Chiefly British The Presbyterian Church of Scotland. Used with the.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To church.
- Same as
kirve . - noun The Scotch and Northern English form of the word church, surviving from Middle English: now often used specifically for the Established Church of Scotland.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Scot. A church or the church, in the various senses of the word; esp., the Church of Scotland as distinguished from other reformed churches, or from the Roman Catholic Church.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a
church .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a Scottish church
Etymologies
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Examples
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Sure does look like the tween kirk is confidently grabbing Spock's ass just below camera frame and spock is "oh". dave
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I think the naysayers are reading too much into the fact that kirk is wearing black.
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I'm just giving my honest opinion on this which I think isn't very nitpicky at all, but something along the lines of 'wow that's how they kill the great captain kirk, huh' So put the gun down.
First Look: Leonard Nimoy as Old Spock in JJ Abrams’ Star Trek | /Film 2008
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It can have the oringinal enterprise or captain kirk, just as long as it’s the original star trek.
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I can see why the writer/direct put this into the movie though because it serves to give us a moment where the ROLES ARE REVERSED suddenly kirk is the moral one and Spock still pissed about his mother’s murder is revengeful and says that he wouldn’t have extended a helping hand to the villain.
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IMHO The best thing about avtar is that it confirms a basic fact about men; Even if they are a ten foot tall blue alien, if they are hot, a man will still go there ala captain kirk.
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All that remained now at the front of the kirk was a plain wooden ledge above the hole where the altarstone had been removed.
Dragonfly in Amber Gabaldon, Diana 1992
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Waking, her voice in the kirk was the sweetest among many sweet, as all the young singers, and she the youngest far, sat together by themselves, and within the congregational music of the psalm, uplifted a silvery strain that sounded like the very spirit of the whole, even like angelic harmony blent with a mortal song.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 479, March 5, 1831 Various
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Finally the kirk was a tyranny, as a democracy may well be.
The Age of the Reformation Preserved Smith 1910
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The most uncanny thing about the kirk was the precentor's box beneath the pulpit.
Auld Licht Idylls 1898
bilby commented on the word kirk
What are you able to build with your blocks?
Castles and palaces, temples and docks.
Rain may keep raining, and others go roam,
But I can be happy and building at home.
Let the sofa be mountains, the carpet be sea,
There I'll establish a city for me:
A kirk and a mill and a palace beside,
And a harbour as well where my vessels may ride.
- Robert Louis Stevenson, 'Block City'.
November 3, 2008