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Webster 1913 Edition
Ecclesiastical
Ec-cleˊsi-as′tic-al
,Adj.
[See ]
Ecclesiastical
, Adj.
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
. [Eng.]
– Ecclesiastical law
, a combination of civil and canon law as administered in ecclesiastical courts.
[Eng.]
– Ecclesiastical modes
(Mus.)
, 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
.