Chapter Christian'a [ch = k] to Church of C by Brewer's Phrase & Fable

another hand to 1141. Printed in 4to at London, 1592. Its chief value consists in its serving as a key to the Saxon chronicle.

Chronon-hoton-thologos [ch = k]. A burlesque pomposo in Henry Carey's farce, so called. Anyone who delivers an inflated address. See http://www.chrononhotonthologos.com

“Aldiborontiphoscophornio, where left you Chrononhotonthologos?”- H. Carey.

Chrysalis [ch = k]. The form which caterpillars assume before they are converted into butterflies or moths. The chrysalis is also called an aurelia, from the Latin aurum, gold. The external covering of some species has a metallic, golden hue, but others are green, red, black, etc. (Greek, chrusos, gold.)
    The plural is either chrysalises or chrysalides (4 syl.).

Chrysaor [ch = k]. Sir Artegal's sword, “that all other swords excelled.” (Spenser: Faërie Queene.) (See Sword .)

Chrysippus Nisi Chrysippus fuisset, Porticus non esset. Chrysippus of Soli was a disciple of Zeno the Stoic, and Cleanthes his successor. He did for the Stoics what St. Paul did for Christianity- that is, he explained the system, showed by plausible reasoning its truth, and how it was based on a solid foundation. Stoicism was founded by Zeno, it is true; but if Chrysippus had not advocated it, the system would never have taken root.

Chubb (Thomas). A deistical writer who wrote upon miracles in the first half of the eighteenth century.

“He heard of Blount, of Mandeville, and Chubb.”
Crabbe: Borough.

Chuck Full Probably a corruption of chock full or choke full - i.e. full enough to choke one.

“Ayr was holding some grand market; streets and inn had been chokefull during the sunny hours.”- Carlyle, in Froude's Jane W. Carlyle, vol. i. letter 1xxxvii. p. 275.

Chukwa The tortoise at the South Pole on which the earth is said to rest.

Chum A crony, a familiar companion, properly a bedfellow; a corruption either of chamber-mate or comrade.

“To have a good chum is one of the pleasantest parts of a voyage.”- Nordhoff: Merchant Vessels, chap. xii. p. 164.

Chum in with (To). To be on friendly terms with. (See above.)

Church The etymology of this word is generally assumed to be from the Greek, Kuriou oikos (house of God); but this is most improbable, as the word existed in all the Celtic dialects long before the introduction of Greek. No doubt the word means “a circle.” The places of worship among the German and Celtic nations were always circular. (Welsh, cyrch, French, cirque; Scotch, kirk; Greek, kirk-os, etc.) Compare Anglo-Saxon circe, a church, with circol, a circle.
   High, Low, and Broad Church. Dr. South says, “The High Church are those who think highly of the Church and lowly of themselves; the Low Church, those who think lowly of the Church and highly of themselves” (this may be epigrammatic, but the latter half is not true). Broad Church are those who think the Church is broad enough for all religious parties, and their own views of religion are chiefly of a moral nature, their doctrinal views being so rounded and elastic that they can come into collision with no one.
    By the “High Church” now are meant those who follow the “Oxford Movement”; the “Low Church” party call themselves the “Evangelical” Church party.
   The Church of Latter-day Saints. The Mormons.
   The Anglican Church. That branch of the Protestant Church which, at the Reformation, was adopted in England. It disavowed the authority of the Pope, and rejected certain dogmas and rules of the Roman Church.
    Since 1532 generally called the “Established Church,” because established by Act of Parliament.
   The Catholic Church. The Western Church called itself so when it separated from the Eastern Church. It is also called the Roman Catholic Church, to distinguish it from the Anglican Church or Anglican Catholic Church, a branch of the Western Church.
   The Established Church. The State Church, which, in England, is Episcopalian and in Scotland Presbyterian. Before the Reformation it was, in both countries, “Catholic;” before the introduction of Christianity it was Pagan, and before that