"halikirk" meaning in Scots

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Noun

Forms: haly kirk [alternative]
Head templates: {{head|sco|noun}} halikirk
  1. holy church; Holy Church
    Sense id: en-halikirk-sco-noun-U0eQHbyE Categories (other): Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Scots entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 91 9 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 86 14 Disambiguation of Scots entries with incorrect language header: 84 16
  2. The Catholic Church; The Holy Catholic Church
    Sense id: en-halikirk-sco-noun-bQX4FT0w
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          "roman": "Sum alsa said, that halikirk suld end befoir the end of the warlde, for charge of tribulatiounis; and that it suld nocht vndirfang for the trauale euirlasting mede.",
          "text": "circa 1520, Murdoch Nisbet, (Thomas Graves Law (ed), The New Testament in Scots, being Purvey's Revision of Wycliffe's Version Turned into Scots by Murdoch Nisbet c 1520, The Scottish Text Society, 1905, p 198)",
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          "roman": "In the first, to the loving of God the glorius virgine Marye and the halie ewangelyst Sanct Mark, the fornemmyt personis bonetmakaris of thar awin fre willis for reparatioun of halikirk and devyne seruice to be done for thame at the altar of Sanct Mark",
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          "roman": "bot be thaire jugis ordinaris, archibischoppis, and uthir thair prelottis, that ar to thame immediatlie superioris and jugis be the law of Halikirk",
          "text": "1541, James V, King of Scotland, (Joseph Bain (ed), The Hamilton Papers, 1890, p 68)",
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          "roman": "the said Williame Douglas sall, God willing, marie and tak to spousit wyffe the said Gelis Grahame, and sall contract and solempnizat the band off matrimonie witht her in face of halikirk betuix this and the first day of Marche nixtocum",
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