ecclesiastical
121ecclesiastical — Synonyms and related words: abbatial, abbatical, apostolic, archiepiscopal, canonical, capitular, capitulary, cathedral like, cathedralesque, church, churchish, churchlike, churchly, clerical, ecclesiastic, episcopal, episcopalian, evangelistic,… …
122ecclesiastical — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. churchly, sacerdotal, priestly, clerical. See clergy. Ant., lay. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. ministerial, clerical, churchly; see clerical 2 , religious 1 . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a.… …
123ecclesiastical — ec|cle|si|as|ti|cal [ ı,klizi æstıkl ] or ec|cle|si|as|tic [ ı,klizi æstık ] adjective relating to the Christian church …
124ecclesiastical — [15] In classical Greek, an ekklēsíā was an ‘assembly’ (the word was derived from ekkalein, a compound verb formed from the prefix ek ‘out’ and kallein ‘call’). With the introduction of Christianity, it was adopted as the term for ‘church’, and… …
125ECCLESIASTICAL — of the CHURCH …
126ecclesiastical — tɪkl adj. of or pertaining to the church …
127ecclesiastical — adjective relating to the Christian Church or its clergy. Derivatives ecclesiastically adverb Origin ME: from Fr. ecclésiastique, or via late L. from Gk ekklēsiastikos, from ekklēsiastēs member of an assembly , from ekklēsia assembly, church …
128ecclesiastical — a. See ecclesiastic …