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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..

Tisri :: Tisri (n.) The seventh month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, answering to a part of September with a part of October..

Court :: Court (n.) Any jurisdiction, civil, military, or ecclesiastical..

Parson :: Parson (n.) Any clergyman having ecclesiastical preferment; one who is in orders, or is licensed to preach; a preacher..

Commissary :: Commissary (n.) An officer of the bishop, who exercises ecclesiastical jurisdiction in parts of the diocese at a distance from the residence of the bishop..

Fund :: Fund (n.) An invested sum, whose income is devoted to a specific object; as, the fund of an ecclesiastical society; a fund for the maintenance of lectures or poor students; also, money systematically collected to meet the expenses of some permanent object..

Primitia :: Primitia (n.) The first fruit; the first year's whole profit of an ecclesiastical preferment.

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

Independent :: Independent (n.) One who believes that an organized Christian church is complete in itself, competent to self-government, and independent of all ecclesiastical authority..

Establishment :: Establishment (n.) That which is established; as: (a) A form of government, civil or ecclesiastical; especially, a system of religion maintained by the civil power; as, the Episcopal establishment of England. (b) A permanent civil, military, or commercial, force or organization. (c) The place in which one is permanently fixed for residence or business; residence, including grounds, furniture, equipage, etc.; with which one is fitted out; also, any office or place of business, with its fixtures;

Canonist :: Canonist (n.) A professor of canon law; one skilled in the knowledge and practice of ecclesiastical law.

Diptych :: Diptych (n.) A double catalogue, containing in one part the names of living, and in the other of deceased, ecclesiastics and benefactors of the church; a catalogue of saints..

Conciliable :: Conciliable (n.) A small or private assembly, especially of an ecclesiastical nature..

Consociate :: Consociate (v. t.) To unite in an ecclesiastical consociation.

Simony :: Simony (n.) The crime of buying or selling ecclesiastical preferment; the corrupt presentation of any one to an ecclesiastical benefice for money or reward.

Berretta :: Berretta (n.) A square cap worn by ecclesiastics of the Roman Catholic Church. A cardinal's berretta is scarlet; that worn by other clerics is black, except that a bishop's is lined with green..

Unalist :: Unalist (n.) An ecclesiastical who holds but one benefice; -- distinguished from pluralist.

Legate :: Legate (n.) An ecclesiastic representing the pope and invested with the authority of the Holy See.

Conciliabule :: Conciliabule (n.) An obscure ecclesiastical council; a conciliable.

Somner :: Somner (n.) A summoner; esp., one who summons to an ecclesiastical court..

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