On Thursday 03 June 2004 11:48 am, Mike Cantrell wrote:
> I would like to know how you'all (that is a word in Arkansas) define the 
word "Denomination."

de·nom·i·na·tion    n.

   1. A large group of religious congregations united under a common faith and 
name and organized under a single administrative and legal hierarchy.

De*nom`i*na"tion\, n. [L. denominatio metonymy: cf. F. d['e]nomination a 
naming.] 

1. The act of naming or designating.

2. That by which anything is denominated or styled; an epithet; a name, 
designation, or title; especially, a general name indicating a class of like 
individuals; a category; as, the denomination of units, or of thousands, or 
of fourths, or of shillings, or of tons.

Those [qualities] which are classed under the denomination of sublime. 
--Burke.

3. A class, or society of individuals, called by the same name; a sect; as, a 
denomination of Christians.

Syn: Name; appellation; title. See Name.


de·nom·i·na·tion·al·ism n. * The tendency to separate into religious 
denominations. * Advocacy of separation into religious denominations. * 
Strict adherence to a denomination; sectarianism. 


-- 
Alvin Smith