1. Church-history. arch.
1561. Daus, trans. Bullinger on Apoc. (1573), 2. Eusebius in … his thyrd booke of churchstories.
1641. J. Jackson, True Evang. T., I. 20. Out of Church-story.
2. A story about the church or clergy.
1876. Miss Braddon, Hostages to Fortune, 18 (Hoppe). Church-stories about So and So who has just been made a bishop.
