Definition of ecclesiastic

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Ecclesiastic (n.) A person in holy orders, or consecrated to the service of the church and the ministry of religion; a clergyman; a priest..

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Pluralist :: Pluralist (n.) A clerk or clergyman who holds more than one ecclesiastical benefice.
Convention :: Convention (v. i.) A meeting or an assembly of persons, esp. of delegates or representatives, to accomplish some specific object, -- civil, social, political, or ecclesiastical..
Conciliabule :: Conciliabule (n.) An obscure ecclesiastical council; a conciliable.
Tebeth :: Tebeth (n.) The tenth month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, answering to a part of December with a part of January..
Archdeacon :: Archdeacon (n.) In England, an ecclesiastical dignitary, next in rank below a bishop, whom he assists, and by whom he is appointed, though with independent authority..
Dignitary :: Dignitary (n.) One who possesses exalted rank or holds a position of dignity or honor; especially, one who holds an ecclesiastical rank above that of a parochial priest or clergyman..
Ecclesiast :: Ecclesiast (n.) An ecclesiastic.
Patriarchate :: Patriarchate (n.) The residence of an ecclesiastic patriarch.
Synod :: Synod (n.) An ecclesiastic council or meeting to consult on church matters.
Procuration :: Procuration (n.) A sum of money paid formerly to the bishop or archdeacon, now to the ecclesiastical commissioners, by an incumbent, as a commutation for entertainment at the time of visitation; -- called also proxy..
Excommunicate :: Excommunicate (v. t.) To put out of communion; especially, to cut off, or shut out, from communion with the church, by an ecclesiastical sentence..
Stationed :: Station (n.) One of the places at which ecclesiastical processions pause for the performance of an act of devotion; formerly, the tomb of a martyr, or some similarly consecrated spot; now, especially, one of those representations of the successive stages of our Lord's passion which are often placed round the naves of large churches and by the side of the way leading to sacred edifices or shrines, and which are visited in rotation, stated services being performed at each; -- called also Station o
Conclavist :: Conclavist (n.) One of the two ecclesiastics allowed to attend a cardinal in the conclave.
Corps :: Corps (n. sing. & pl.) The land with which a prebend or other ecclesiastical office is endowed.
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..
Rochet :: Rochet (n.) A linen garment resembling the surplise, but with narrower sleeves, also without sleeves, worn by bishops, and by some other ecclesiastical dignitaries, in certain religious ceremonies..
Censure :: Censure (v. i.) To condemn or reprimand by a judicial or ecclesiastical sentence.
Somner :: Somner (n.) A summoner; esp., one who summons to an ecclesiastical court..
Ecclesiastically :: Ecclesiastically (adv.) In an ecclesiastical manner; according ecclesiastical rules.
Ecclesiast :: Ecclesiast (n.) The Apocryphal book of Ecclesiasticus.
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