Ecclesiastical /(?)/
Ec·cle·si·as·tic·al
Ecclesiastical
a.
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Of or pertaining to the church; relating to the organization or government of the church; not secular; as, ecclesiastical affairs or history; ecclesiastical courts.
Every circumstance of ecclesiastical order and discipline was an abomination.
Phrases & Compounds
- Ecclesiastical commissioners for England
- a permanent commission established by Parliament in 1836, to consider and report upon the affairs of the Established Church.
- Ecclesiastical courts
- courts for maintaining the discipline of the Established Church; -- called also Christian courts.
- Ecclesiastical law
- a combination of civil and canon law as administered in ecclesiastical courts.
- Ecclesiastical modes
- the church modes, or the scales anciently used.
- Ecclesiastical States
- the territory formerly subject to the Pope of Rome as its temporal ruler; -- called also States of the Church.