meeting of quakers
11Quakers — The Friends (or Quakers) movement represented the most radical wing of Puritanism, the 17th century attempt to purify the Church of England. Founder George Fox (1624 1691) began to preach in 1647 after experiencing an inner illumination. Fox… …
12Meeting for worship — For worship meetings in other branches of Christianity, see Church service. A meeting for worship is a practice of the Religious Society of Friends (or Quakers ) in many ways comparable to a church service. These services have a wide variety of… …
13Quakers Friars — Infobox Historic building caption=Quakers Friars name=Quakers Friars location town=Bristol location country=England latitude=51.457651 longitude= 2.587900 map type=Bristol architect= client= engineer= construction start date=1747 completion… …
14Quakers in Kenya — Kenya contains the largest body of Quakers in a single nation. There were about 133,000 members of the Religious Society of Friends there, in the year 2008 (according to the Friends World Committee for Consultation). The Quaker faith has been… …
15Quakers in science — The Religious Society of Friends (commonly known as Quakers ) encouraged some values which may have been conducive to encouraging scientific talents. A theory suggested by David Hackett Fischer in his book Albion s Seed indicated early Quakers in …
16meeting house — noun columbine of eastern North America having long spurred red flowers • Syn: ↑honeysuckle, ↑Aquilegia canadensis • Hypernyms: ↑columbine, ↑aquilegia, ↑aquilege • Member Holonyms: ↑g …
17Quakers in Europe — The Quaker movement began in England in the Seventeenth Century. Small Quaker groups were planted in various places across Europe during this early period (For instance, see the Stephen Crisp article)Quakers in Europe outside Britain and Ireland… …
18meeting — n. 1 in senses of MEET(1). 2 an assembly of people, esp. the members of a society, committee, etc., for discussion or entertainment. 3 = race meeting. 4 an assembly (esp. of Quakers) for worship. 5 the persons assembled (address the meeting).… …
19meeting — meet|ing W1S1 [ˈmi:tıŋ] n 1.) an event at which people meet to discuss and decide things ▪ We re having a meeting next week to discuss the matter. ▪ Over a hundred and fifty people attended the meeting . ▪ Mrs Lavelle is in a meeting at the… …
20Meeting house — A secular meeting house in the U.S. state of Vermont is primarily used for a town meeting. A meeting house describes a building where a public meeting takes place. This includes secular buildings which function like a town or city hall, and… …
