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25	Words which have an acquired, limited, or special meaning: the Doctor's degree; a report of the Master (in chancery); a Bachelor's hood; a Freshman. But do not capitalize such expressions as— the doctorate, a master in chancery (the last two words being explanatory, the capitalization of "master" is here no longer necessary to indicate a special meaning).
26.	"Nature" and similar terms, and abstract ideas, when personified: "Nature wields her scepter mercilessly"; "Vice in the old English morality plays."
27.	"Father" used for church father, and "reformers" used of Reformation leaders, whenever the meaning otherwise would be ambiguous: the Fathers, the early Fathers, the Greek Fathers, [Pilgrim Fathers], the Reformers (but: the church reformers of the fifteenth century).
28.	The word "church" in properly cited titles of nationally organized bodies of believers in which, through historical associations, it has become inseparably linked with the name of a specific locality; or when forming part of the name of a particular edifice: Church of Rome, Church of England, High Church; Church of the Holy Sepulcher, Fifth Avenue Baptist Church, First Methodist Church. But do not capitalize, except as noted above, when standing alone, in any sense—universal, national,