ecclesiastical

ecclesiastical architecture; ecclesiastical robes.

a set of ecclesiastical canons.

the powers of ecclesiastical regiment which none but the Church should wield.

ecclesiastical demesnes in Western Europe

putting ecclesiastical vestments to secular use was considered sacrilege.

Ecclesiastical To put under a ban or an anathema; excommunicate.

The plagal cadence, sometimes known as the Amen cadence from ecclesiastical use, is the progression from the chord of the subdominant to the tonic, IV - I.

The office of the pope is called the Papacy; his ecclesiastical jurisdiction is called the Holy See (Sancta Sedes).

The upper texts often became a confusing mixture of sacred and secular—and even anticlerical—poems, indicating its intended performance in courtly as well as ecclesiastical settings.

Their ecclesiastical government is conducted upon a plan equally frugal.

Galileo, worried by this, traveled to Rome to speak to the ecclesiastical authorities.

Father Kiprian agreed; " only he puts too much faith in the ecclesiastical superintendents" !

There were also ecclesiastical reformers who chose to remain within the Roman Catholic church.

Local self-government in matters ecclesiastical helped to train them for local self-government in matters political.

In the colonies of all those three nations, too, the ecclesiastical government is extremely oppressive.

I am not so ecclesiastical as Naumann, and I sometimes twit him with his excess of meaning.

The author places Boniface in the eighth circle of hell for the crime of selling off ecclesiastical privileges.

The windows were draped with curtains of red gros de Tours held back by silken cords with ecclesiastical tassels.

He had good ideas in modernizing the Church, and pushed through motions to reform the ecclesiastical status quo.