ecclesiastical

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.