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church: “I am of the ,” I am a ‘churchman,’ i.e. clergyman Wiv. I. i. 32; cf. the familiar phrase ‘to enter the church’=to take holy orders; “to go to church,” to be married Ado II. i. 373 “when mean you to go to church?,” Mer.V. III. ii. 304, Shr. III. ii. 129, Rom. II. v. 74, III. v. 162; so Ado III. iv. 97 “to fetch you to church.”
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    • William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, 3.2
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