[see -FUL.] As many as a church will contain.
1720. trans. Brandt’s Hist. Reform., I. XVI. 465. Some of the City Ministers do not scruple to inveigh against the Magistrates, before a churchful of people.
1821. R. Lamond, Narr. Emigration, 93. The people here travel night and day, and you never hear a cough or hoarseness among a churchful of them.
1860. Brooklyn Daily Times, 25 Jan., 2/3. Listened to with the closest attention and pleasure by a churchful of people for more than an hour and a half.
1885. Manch. Exam., 10 Jan., 5/2. The testimony of a whole churchful of witnesses.
