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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A church that a government officially recognizes and supports as a national institution.
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- noun a church that is
officially recognized as anational institution by agovernment ; inEngland it is theChurch of England
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- noun the church that is recognized as the official church of a nation
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