churchical

adjective more churchical · most churchical

1. informal Pertaining to or characteristic of church; ecclesiastical. When I rode through the streets of your giant-like town (applause), and when I saw the many churches which heave their towers up stairs (cheers), I thought, the English are a very churchical people (loud cheers). I therefore wonder not that you also are an educational people, for religion is the mot

   Similar: churchish, churchlike, churchy, churchical, churchly, ecclesial, ecclesiastic, ecclesiastical · Opposite: unecclesiastical

2. Jamaica Belonging to a style of Reggae music that reflects a spiritual sensibility. To sum up, Rastafarian music has developed from the traditional chanting and drumming of predominantly "churchical" type to more "secular kind of projection of philosophy, not just confined to chanting but to popular, vernacular, more funky style … and of more general awareness of what is happening

   Opposite: heartical

3. Jamaica, Rastafari Pertaining to the strain of Rastafarian culture that emphasizes a traditional theocracy. Ethiopia, the Saviour of the world. Ethiopia as an Empire with hundreds of Ethnic groups with their religious beliefs centered around the House of David; these traditions and customs were taken to Jamaica and were kept alive by underground secret society with the churchical order dealing with divini