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ecclesiastical Definition

ec·cle·si·as·ti·cal (--ti kəl)

adjective

  1. of the church, the organization of the church, or the clergy
  2. used chiefly in early writings relating to Christianity ecclesiastical Latin (or Greek)

Etymology: ME: see ecclesiastic & -al

ecclesiastical Related Forms

ec·cle′·si·as·ti·cally adverb

ecclesiastical Synonyms

ecclesiastical

modif.

ecclesiastical Usage Examples

Modifies a noun

  • benefice: Glebe land is usually regarded as land belonging to either a parish church or an ecclesiastical benefice of some kind.
  • commissioner: Ecclesiastical commissioners were posted to all regions of the country.
  • preferment: Simony is the buying of ecclesiastical preferment - how does this affect the whole story?
  • parish: There are two types of parishes: An ecclesiastical parish.
  • exemption: As the new year starts we learn of a further review of the Ecclesiastical Exemption in planning.
  • censure: William acknowledged that he had been constrained by ecclesiastical censure to make peace with Byland.

Modifying Another Word

  • purely: The purely ecclesiastical matters dealt with are also of very great interest.
  • even: This is the ethical outworking of the good news, and even ecclesiastical discipline.
  • strictly: I cannot give my consent to the alienating of Church property, in any part of the United Kingdom, from strictly ecclesiastical purposes.
  • largely: The Church at Hook Hook's importance seems to have been largely ecclesiastical.
  • especially: Specialisms: Saxon to 17th-century archeology of Chester, especially ecclesiastical and Civil War.
  • mainly: Her work is mainly ecclesiastical and can be seen in many churches in East Anglia.

Preposition: in

origin: But the Christian code of conduct contained things which were purely ecclesiastical in origin.

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