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Definition of Ecclesiastic
1. Noun. A clergyman or other person in religious orders.
Generic synonyms: Clergyman, Man Of The Cloth, Reverend
Specialized synonyms: Ordainer, Pardoner, Pluralist
Specialized synonyms: A Kempis, Thomas A Kempis, Bruno, Saint Bruno, St. Bruno
2. Adjective. Of or associated with a church (especially a Christian Church). "Ecclesiastic history"
Definition of Ecclesiastic
1. a. Of or pertaining to the church. See Ecclesiastical.
2. n. A person in holy orders, or consecrated to the service of the church and the ministry of religion; a clergyman; a priest.
Definition of Ecclesiastic
1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to the church; ecclesiastical. ¹
2. Noun. One who adheres to a church-based philosophy. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ecclesiastic
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ecclesiastic
Literary usage of Ecclesiastic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Dictionary of Biographical Reference: Containing Over One Hundred by Lawrence Barnett Phillips (1889)
"1800 " B. Begh, or Le Bègue, Lambert, Flemish ecclesiastic, Begin, Auguste Emile,
French surgeon and litterateur ; b. 1803 F. Begin, Jacques, ..."
2. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1887)
"Some ecclesiastic, of real or sanctity, was chosen to direct their timorous
conscience, ... If the ecclesiastic? were checked in the pursuit of ..."
3. Lives of the Queens of England, from the Norman Conquest: With Anecdotes of by Agnes Strickland, Elizabeth Strickland (1843)
"The ecclesiastic who preached the sermon on that occasion, discoursed much of
death, the vanity of human greatness, and the calamities of princes, ..."
4. A Universal Biographical Dictionary Containing the Lives of the Most by Charles N Baldwin (1826)
"... do7 a French ecclesiastic, distinguished as a politician, and asa man of letters,
... a French ecclesiastic, and professor of divinity at the Sorbonne, ..."
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