Church-ridden
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Dominated by the church or churches.
"[…] to a Nation of Papists, as the whole People then were, and proposed to remain such, it was thought necessary to procure the further Security of a Dispensation from the See of Rome, without which it might be possible, for Ecclesiasticks, in the Reign of some future Church-ridden Prince, to resume their Possessions without refunding the Purchase Money."
Example
More examples"[…] to a Nation of Papists, as the whole People then were, and proposed to remain such, it was thought necessary to procure the further Security of a Dispensation from the See of Rome, without which it might be possible, for Ecclesiasticks, in the Reign of some future Church-ridden Prince, to resume their Possessions without refunding the Purchase Money."
Etymology
From church + -ridden.
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