Quaker Glossary
To further understanding, we offer the following definition of terms in common usage amongst Quakers.
a
- Attender
b
- Breaking Meeting
c
- Centering
- Clearness
- Clerk
- Concern
- Conscientious Objection
- Continuing Revelation
- Convener
- Convinced Friend
- Corporate Worship
d
- Discernment
e
- Eldering
f
- Facing Bench
- Faith and Practice
- First Day
g
- Gathered Meeting
- Good Order
h
- Hold in the Light
i
- Inner Light
l
- Lay Down
- Leading
m
- Meeting for Business
- Meeting for Worship
- Message
- Ministry
- Minute
n
- Nontheist Friends
o
- Outrunning One’s Guide
p
- Popcorn Meeting
- Proceed as Way Opens
q
- Queries
r
- Rise of Meeting
s
- Seasoning
- Sense of the Meeting
- Standing Aside
- Standing in the Way
t
- Testimonies
- That of God in Everyone
- Threshing Session
u
- Unprogrammed Meeting
w
- Weighty Friend
- Worship-sharing