Word Meanings - ECCLESIASTICAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Of or pertaining to the church; relating to the organization or government of the church; not secular; as, ecclesiastical affairs or history; ecclesiastical courts. Every circumstance of ecclesiastical order and discipline was an abomination.
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Of or pertaining to the church; relating to the organization or government of the church; not secular; as, ecclesiastical affairs or history; ecclesiastical courts. Every circumstance of ecclesiastical order and discipline was an abomination. Cowper. Ecclesiastical commissioners for England, a permanent commission established by Parliament in 1836, to consider and report upon the affairs of the Established Church. -- Ecclesiastical courts, courts for maintaining the discipline of the Established Church; -- called also Christian courts. -- Ecclesiastical law, a combination of civil and canon law as administered in ecclesiastical courts. -- Ecclesiastical modes , the church modes, or the scales anciently used. -- Ecclesiastical States, the territory formerly subject to the Pope of Rome as its temporal ruler; -- called also States of the Church.
Related words: (words related to ECCLESIASTICAL)
- CHURCHLINESS
Regard for the church. - CHURCHLIKE
Befitting a church or a churchman; becoming to a clergyman. Shak. - RELATIONSHIP
The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance. Mason. - DISCIPLINE
1. To educate; to develop by instruction and exercise; to train. 2. To accustom to regular and systematic action; to bring under control so as to act systematically; to train to act together under orders; to teach subordination to; to form a habit - EVERYWHERENESS
Ubiquity; omnipresence. Grew. - EVERYWHERE
In every place; in all places; hence, in every part; throughly; altogether. - SECULAR
A secular ecclesiastic, or one not bound by monastic rules. Burke. - CHURCH
AS. circe, cyrice; akin to D. kerk, Icel. kirkja, Sw. kyrka, Dan. kirke, G. kirche, OHG. chirihha; all fr. Gr. ç'd4ra hero, Zend. çura 1. A building set apart for Christian worship. 2. A Jewish or heathen temple. Acts xix. 37. 3. A formally - CHURCHYARD
The ground adjoining a church, in which the dead are buried; a cemetery. Like graves in the holy churchyard. Shak. Syn. -- Burial place; burying ground; graveyard; necropolis; cemetery; God's acre. - CHURCH-BENCH
A seat in the porch of a church. Shak. - ECCLESIASTICALLY
In an ecclesiastical manner; according ecclesiastical rules. - CHURCH MODES
The modes or scales used in ancient church music. See Gregorian. - ORGANIZATION
1. The act of organizing; the act of arranging in a systematic way for use or action; as, the organization of an army, or of a deliberative body. "The first organization of the general government." Pickering. 2. The state of being organized; also, - DISCIPLINER
One who disciplines. - CHURCHSHIP
State of being a church. South. - RELATIVELY
In a relative manner; in relation or respect to something else; not absolutely. Consider the absolute affections of any being as it is in itself, before you consider it relatively. I. Watts. - ABOMINATION
1. The feeling of extreme disgust and hatred; abhorrence; detestation; loathing; as, he holds tobacco in abomination. 2. That which is abominable; anything hateful, wicked, or shamefully vile; an object or state that excites disgust and hatred; - CHURCHMANLY
Pertaining to, or becoming, a churchman. Milman. - SECULARIZATION
The act of rendering secular, or the state of being rendered secular; conversion from regular or monastic to secular; conversion from religious to lay or secular possession and uses; as, the secularization of church property. - RELATE
1. To bring back; to restore. Abate your zealous haste, till morrow next again Both light of heaven and strength of men relate. Spenser. 2. To refer; to ascribe, as to a source. 3. To recount; to narrate; to tell over. This heavy act with heavy - PRELATIST
One who supports of advocates prelacy, or the government of the church by prelates; hence, a high-churchman. Hume. I am an Episcopalian, but not a prelatist. T. Scott. - PRELATISM
Prelacy; episcopacy. - PRELATIZE
To bring under the influence of prelacy. Palfrey. - IMBORDER
To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton. - MISRELATION
Erroneous relation or narration. Abp. Bramhall. - MISORDER
To order ill; to manage erroneously; to conduct badly. Shak. - UNSECULARIZE
To cause to become not secular; to detach from secular things; to alienate from the world. - MISGOVERNMENT
Bad government; want of government. Shak. - IRRELATIVE
Not relative; without mutual relations; unconnected. -- Ir*rel"a*tive*ly, adv. Irrelative chords , those having no common tone. -- Irrelative repetition , the multiplication of parts that serve for a common purpose, but have no mutual dependence - ACCORDER
One who accords, assents, or concedes.