Definition of ecclesiastical

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Ecclesiastical (a.) Of or pertaining to the church; relating to the organization or government of the church; not secular; as, ecclesiastical affairs or history; ecclesiastical courts..

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Absolution :: Absolution (n.) An absolving from ecclesiastical penalties, -- for example, excommunication..
Capitularly :: Capitularly (adv.) In the manner or form of an ecclesiastical chapter.
Censure :: Censure (n.) Judicial or ecclesiastical sentence or reprimand; condemnatory judgment.
Cope :: Cope (n.) An ecclesiastical vestment or cloak, semicircular in form, reaching from the shoulders nearly to the feet, and open in front except at the top, where it is united by a band or clasp. It is worn in processions and on some other occasions..
Monitory :: Monitory (n.) Admonition; warning; especially, a monition proceeding from an ecclesiastical court, but not addressed to any one person..
Capitulary :: Capitulary (n.) A collection of laws or statutes, civil and ecclesiastical, esp. of the Frankish kings, in chapters or sections..
Proxy :: Proxy (n.) The written appointment of a proctor in suits in the ecclesiastical courts.
Processional :: Processional (n.) A service book relating to ecclesiastical processions.
Official :: Official (a.) An ecclesiastical judge appointed by a bishop, chapter, archdeacon, etc., with charge of the spiritual jurisdiction..
Somner :: Somner (n.) A summoner; esp., one who summons to an ecclesiastical court..
Superoxide :: Superordination (n.) The ordination of a person to fill a station already occupied; especially, the ordination by an ecclesiastical official, during his lifetime, of his successor..
Patronage :: Patronage (n.) The right of presentation to church or ecclesiastical benefice; advowson.
Prelacy :: Prelacy (n.) The order of prelates, taken collectively; the body of ecclesiastical dignitaries..
Excommunication :: Excommunication (n.) The act of communicating or ejecting; esp., an ecclesiastical censure whereby the person against whom it is pronounced is, for the time, cast out of the communication of the church; exclusion from fellowship in things spiritual..
Parson :: Parson (n.) Any clergyman having ecclesiastical preferment; one who is in orders, or is licensed to preach; a preacher..
Ministry :: Ministry (n.) The office, duties, or functions of a minister, servant, or agent; ecclesiastical, executive, or ambassadorial function or profession..
Zif :: Zif (n.) The second month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, corresponding to our May..
Ecclesiastically :: Ecclesiastically (adv.) In an ecclesiastical manner; according ecclesiastical rules.
Consociate :: Consociate (v. i.) To form an ecclesiastical consociation.
Fulminate :: Fulminate (v. t.) To utter or send out with denunciations or censures; -- said especially of menaces or censures uttered by ecclesiastical authority.
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