ecclesiastical
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
ecclesiastical/ɪkliːziˈastɪkl/
▶adjective relating to the Christian Church or its clergy.
– derivatives
ecclesiastically adverb.
ecclesiastically adverb.
– origin ME: from Fr. ecclésiastique, or via late L. from Gk ekklēsiastikos, from ekklēsiastēs ‘member of an assembly’, from ekklēsia ‘assembly, church’.
'ecclesiastical' also found in these Oxford entries:
absolution
- advowson
- apparel
- benefit
- canon law
- civil
- common law
- conciliar
- consistory
- defrock
- diriment impediment
- ecclesial
- ecclesiastic
- Erastianism
- Gallican
- imprimatur
- impropriate
- incumbent
- inquisition
- interdict
- libel
- metropolitan
- ministerial
- moderate
- moderator
- monition
- mortmain
- officer
- orphrey
- pall
- postulate
- prelate
- proctor
- rota
- sanction
- scapular
- sederunt
- simony
- synod
