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Secular :: Secular (n.) A secular ecclesiastic, or one not bound by monastic rules..

Spirituality :: Spirituality (n.) That which belongs to the church, or to a person as an ecclesiastic, or to religion, as distinct from temporalities..

Synod :: Synod (n.) An ecclesiastic council or meeting to consult on church matters.

Chapellany :: Chapellany (n.) A chapel within the jurisdiction of a church; a subordinate ecclesiastical foundation.

Residentiary :: Residentiary (n.) An ecclesiastic who keeps a certain residence.

Pluralism :: Pluralism (n.) The state of a pluralist; the holding of more than one ecclesiastical living at a time.

Preconization :: Preconization (n.) A formal approbation by the pope of a person nominated to an ecclesiastical dignity.

Sentence :: Sentence (n.) In civil and admiralty law, the judgment of a court pronounced in a cause; in criminal and ecclesiastical courts, a judgment passed on a criminal by a court or judge; condemnation pronounced by a judgical tribunal; doom. In common law, the term is exclusively used to denote the judgment in criminal cases..

Order :: Order (n.) An ecclesiastical grade or rank, as of deacon, priest, or bishop; the office of the Christian ministry; -- often used in the plural; as, to take orders, or to take holy orders, that is, to enter some grade of the ministry..

Spiritualist :: Spiritualist (n.) One who professes a regard for spiritual things only; one whose employment is of a spiritual character; an ecclesiastic.

Consociate :: Consociate (v. i.) To form an ecclesiastical consociation.

Decretal :: Decretal (a.) An authoritative order or decree; especially, a letter of the pope, determining some point or question in ecclesiastical law. The decretals form the second part of the canon law..

Censure :: Censure (v. i.) To condemn or reprimand by a judicial or ecclesiastical sentence.

Abbe :: Abbe (n.) The French word answering to the English abbot, the head of an abbey; but commonly a title of respect given in France to every one vested with the ecclesiastical habit or dress..

Adar :: Adar (n.) The twelfth month of the Hebrew ecclesiastical year, and the sixth of the civil. It corresponded nearly with March..

Mixolydian Mode :: Mixolydian mode () The seventh ecclesiastical mode, whose scale commences on G..

Censure :: Censure (n.) Judicial or ecclesiastical sentence or reprimand; condemnatory judgment.

Temporal :: Temporal (n.) Civil or political, as distinguished from ecclesiastical; as, temporal power; temporal courts..

Rubric :: Rubric (n.) The directions and rules for the conduct of service, formerly written or printed in red; hence, also, an ecclesiastical or episcopal injunction; -- usually in the plural..

Concordat :: Concordat (n.) An agreement made between the pope and a sovereign or government for the regulation of ecclesiastical matters with which both are concerned; as, the concordat between Pope Pius VII and Bonaparte in 1801..

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