Word Meanings - MINSTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A church of a monastery. The name is often retained and applied to the church after the monastery has ceased to exist (as Beverly Minster, Southwell Minster, etc.), and is also improperly used for any large church.

• Largesse
  Liberality; generosity; bounty.
• AFTERDAMP
  An irrespirable gas, remaining after an explosion of fire damp in mines; choke damp. See Carbonic acid.
• LARGEACRED
  Possessing much land.
• After-image
  The impression of a vivid sensation retained by the retina of the eye after the cause has been removed; also extended to impressions left of tones, smells, etc.
• After-wit
  Wisdom or perception that comes after it can be of use.
• Applique
  Ornamented with a pattern (which has been cut out of another color or stuff) applied or transferred to a foundation; as, applique lace; applique work.
• Churchless
  Without a church.
• Existence
  The state of existing or being; actual possession of being; continuance in being; as, the existence of body and of soul in union; the separate existence of the soul; immortal existence.
• AFTERDINNER
  The time just after dinner. "An after-dinner's sleep." Shak. [Obs.] -- a.
• LARGEHANDED
  Having large hands, Fig.: Taking, or giving, in large quantities; rapacious or bountiful.
• Afterings
  The last milk drawn in milking; strokings.
• After-witted
  Characterized by after-wit; slow-witted.
• Churchlike
  Befitting a church or a churchman; becoming to a clergyman.
• Existency
  Existence.
• Minster
  A church of a monastery. The name is often retained and applied to the church after the monastery has ceased to exist (as Beverly Minster, Southwell Minster, etc.), and is also improperly used for any large church.
• AFTEREATAGE
  Aftergrass.

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