subs. phr. (old Quakers’).—A church (GROSE).

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  d. 1690.  FOX, Journal (Philadelphia), 167. The reason why I would not go into their STEEPLE-HOUSE was, because I was to bear my testimony against it, and to bring all off from such places to the spirit of God, that they might know their bodies to be the temples of the holy ghost.

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  1890.  WHITTIER, Poems, ‘In the “Old South.”’

        There are STEEPLE-HOUSES on every hand,
  And pulpits that bless and ban;
And the Lord will not grudge the single church
  That is set apart for man.

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