ecclesiastical

English

Etymology

Category:English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#ECCLESIASTICALCategory:English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *kelh₁-#ECCLESIASTICAL

From Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#ECCLESIASTICALCategory:English terms derived from Middle English#ECCLESIASTICAL ecclesiasticall, ecclesiasticalle, from LatinCategory:English terms derived from Latin#ECCLESIASTICAL ecclēsiasticus + -al.[1] By surface analysis, ecclesiastic +‎ -alCategory:English terms suffixed with -al#ECCLESIASTICAL[2] or ecclesiast +‎ -icalCategory:English terms suffixed with -ical#ECCLESIASTICAL.

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ecclesiastical (comparative more ecclesiastical, superlative most ecclesiastical)Category:English lemmas#ECCLESIASTICALCategory:English adjectives#ECCLESIASTICALCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#ECCLESIASTICALCategory:Pages with entries#ECCLESIASTICALCategory:Pages with 1 entry#ECCLESIASTICAL

  1. Of or pertaining to the church.
    Synonyms: churchical, churchlike, churchly, ecclesial, (less common) ecclesiastic; see also Thesaurus:ecclesiastical
    • 1927, Havelock Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 (of 6)‎:
      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."
      Category:English terms with quotations#ECCLESIASTICAL

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  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.
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