halikirk

== Scots == === Alternative forms === haly kirk === Noun === halikirk holy church; Holy Church The Catholic Church; The Holy Catholic Church 1424, Parliament of Scotland, (The Acts of the Parliaments of Scotland, King George the Third, 1814, vol 2, p 3) circa 1520, Murdoch Nisbet, (Thomas Graves Law (ed), The New Testament in Scots, being Purvey's Revision of Wycliffe's Version Turned into Scots by Murdoch Nisbet c 1520, The Scottish Text Society, 1905, p 198) 1520, Burgh of Edinburgh, (Extracts from the Records of the Burgh of Edinburgh: A.D. 1403-1528, Scottish Burgh Records Society, 1869, p 199) 1541, James V, King of Scotland, (Joseph Bain (ed), The Hamilton Papers, 1890, p 68) 1551, Contract between Archibald Douglas and Robert Grahame, (Sir William Fraser, The Douglas Book, Edinburgh, 1885, vol 3, p 245) ==== Usage notes ==== Used in Acts of the pre-union Parliament of Scotland, in particular, as a single word. === References === === Further reading === Grant G. Simpson. "halikirk" in "Glossary". Scottish Handwriting 1150-1650: An Introduction to the Reading of Documents. John Donald. 2009. p 127. "Haly Kirk". Dictionaries of the Scots Language. University of Glasgow. "Haly Kirk". A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue. 1963. vol 3.