churched

churched
 adj.— «Mr. Kibby estimated that “hundreds of thinking, ‘un-churched’ teen-agers would welcome the opportunity of being part of such an organization.”» —“Youth Church Proposed by Local Pastor” Berkshire Evening Eagle (Pittsfield, Mass.) Dec. 11, 1950. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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