Ecclesiastic is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ECCLESIASTIC in dictionary:

VERB:
• Of or pertaining to the church. See Ecclesiastical.
NOUN:
• a person consecrated to the church, such as a priest or a clergyman
• a priest or member of the clergy.
• A person in holy orders, or consecrated to the service of the church and the ministry of religion; a clergyman; a priest.
• a clergyman or other person in religious orders
• a person consecrated to the church, such as a priest or member of the clergy
ADJECTIVE:
• relating to the church or to the clergy
• of or associated with a church (especially a Christian Church)
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• ecclesiastical

Words related to ECCLESIASTIC

ecclesiastics19

Words that contain ECCLESIASTIC

ecclesiastics19 ecclesiastical20 ecclesiasticism23 ecclesiasticall21 nonecclesiastic21 ecclesiasticisms24 ecclesiastically25 nonecclesiastical23

How to use ECCLESIASTIC in a sentence

• Saint Bernard, the most influential and profound ecclesiastic of the day, headed the opposition.
• Be it far from me to disparage the ordinary type of Roman ecclesiastic, who is bred in a seminary, and perhaps spends his lifetime in a religious community.
• There is a south porch, a rich font, the tomb of an ecclesiastic, and the assemblage of niches before described.
• He sprang up eagerly, thinking that the ecclesiastic might have arrived.
• At the age of fifty-two he became an ecclesiastic, and composed religious poetry only.
• Although an ecclesiastic, his poetic genius was more virile than that of his soldier master.
• The only ecclesiastic was Walter of Cantilupe, Bishop of Worcester, and the only alien was Earl Simon of Leicester.
• This ecclesiastic while attending the council of Florence in 1414 was asked by the Bishops of Bath and Salisbury, England, to make a Latin translation of the Divine Comedy.
• They specially disliked the decrees which enforced the residence of prelates and the limitation of benefices held by a single ecclesiastic.
• The latter, as an ecclesiastic, escaped the doom he merited, and, not being tried at law, was only committed to close custody for the rest of his life.
• He is not a graduate, although he knows Latin, and is an honored and exemplary ecclesiastic.
• Doctor Juan Ochoa de Arriola is a very learned ecclesiastic, and an excellent preacher.
• Bachelor Amaro Diaz is a very virtuous and exemplary ecclesiastic, well liked by all, and trustworthy in any office.
• He is an exemplary ecclesiastic, and is well liked in this city on account of his character.
• He soon absorbed all the temporal power, and latterly left matters ecclesiastic to his nephew Sava.
• This is under the direction of the government, which, with a truly ecclesiastic regard for its subjects, has organized it into a means of raising revenue.
• And this result was reached chiefly, if not solely, because the ecclesiastic chant was not employed.
• No ecclesiastic ever had stronger motives to enter upon a path of reform, or fewer obstructions.
• The deputation, consisting of the officer commanding the troops, of the ecclesiastic of highest rank in the town, and of one of the principal merchants, proceeded to the forest.
• I was struggling with him in the doorway of the house when a large and dignified ecclesiastic came upon the scene, the jewelled cross upon his cassock flashing in the sun.
• It is no longer possible to doubt that the prophecy thus revised is the work of an ecclesiastic whose intentions may be easily divined.
• He would think freely, but has some ambition of being governor to the Dauphin, and is more afraid of his wife and daughter, who are ecclesiastic fagots.
• Gabriel had acquired in the seminary that ecclesiastic sternness that turns the priest into a warrior more intent on the interest of the Church than on the concerns of his family.
• Sigismund, was a king and a warrior, and Conti might possibly think that it did not accord with his profession, as an humble ecclesiastic, to introduce him here.
• The ecclesiastic was a holy man, well shaped, and admirably well proportioned.
• This was an ecclesiastic named Pedro de la Gasea, a man of great resolution, penetration, and knowledge of affairs.
• Garnier, was more than eighty, and he was in every respect an ecclesiastic of the old school.
• He thought it probable that some rumour of the stir on the fair day had reached the ecclesiastic, and that he wanted an account of it in detail.
• Certainly none but a spy on the watch and on the right scent would recognize in this serving man the young ecclesiastic of a few weeks back.
• Whenever he embarked upon any important expedition, he took an ecclesiastic to the tomb of Saint Theodosius, there to implore the blessing of Heaven.
• He had been a great ecclesiastic, successful, dignified, important, but without those highest qualities which command respect or interest.

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