ppl. a. [UN-1 8 and UN-2 8: cf. prec.] a. Excluded from, deprived of, (the status of) a church. b. Not provided or connected with a church. c. (See quot. 1727.)
1691. Baxter, Answ. Dodwell, iii. 21. The Protestant Churches are in the same unchurched damnable case that have Bishops.
1727. Bailey (vol. II.), Unchurched, dissolved from being a Church, excommunicated; also not churched, as a Woman that has lain in.
1870. M. D. Conway, Earthw. Pilgr., xxvi. 311. The great interests of our time gather about the unchurched world.
1889. J. H. Ward, Church in Modern Society, xii. 224. There is more activity to-day in the churches, but there are also more unchurched people than ever before.
