ecclesiastical

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle English ecclesiasticall, ecclesiasticalle, from Latin ecclēsiasticus + -al.[1] By surface analysis, ecclesiastic +‎ -al[2] or ecclesiast +‎ -ical.

Pronunciation

  • (Canada) IPA(key): /əˌkli.ziˈæ.stə.kəl/
  • (UK) IPA(key): /əˈkliː.ziˌæ.stɪ.kəl/
  • Audio (UK):(file)

Adjective

ecclesiastical (comparative more ecclesiastical, superlative most ecclesiastical)

  1. Of or pertaining to the church.
    Synonyms: churchical, churchlike, churchly, ecclesial, ecclesiastic (less common); see also Thesaurus:ecclesiastical
    Antonyms: antiecclesiastical, nonecclesiastical
    ecclesiastical architecture
    • 1927, Havelock Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 (of 6)‎[1]:
      Sodomy had always been an ecclesiastical offense. The Statute of 1533 (25 Henry VIII, c. 6) made it a felony; and Pollock and Maitland consider that this "affords an almost sufficient proof that the temporal courts had not punished it, and that no one had been put to death for it, for a very long time past."

Derived terms

Translations

See also

  • Appendix:Ecclesiastical terms

References

  1. ^ “ecclēsiasticā̆l, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
  2. ^ “ecclesiastical, adj.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
This page is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.