ecclesiastical

English

Etymology

From ecclesiastic +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

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

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Adjective

ecclesiastical (comparative more ecclesiastical, superlative most ecclesiastical)

1. Of or pertaining to the church.

   Synonyms: churchical, churchlike, churchly, ecclesial, (less common) ecclesiastic

   ecclesiastical architecture

   • 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."

Alternative forms

• ecclesiasticall (obsolete)

Antonyms

• antiecclesiastical
• nonecclesiastical

Derived terms

• Ecclesiastical Latin
• Ecclesiastical State
• unecclesiastical

Related terms

• see Ecclesiastes

Translations

pertaining to the church

Albanian: kishtar (sq) Arabic: كَنْسِيّ m (kansiyy) Armenian: եկեղեցական (hy) (ekeġecʻakan) Asturian: eclesiásticu Belarusian: царко́ўны (carkóŭny) Catalan: eclesiàstic (ca) Czech: církevní (cs) Dutch: ecclesiastisch (nl), kerkelijk (nl) Esperanto: eklezia Finnish: kirkollinen (fi) French: ecclésiastique (fr) Galician: eclesiástico (gl) German: kirchlich (de), sakral (de), Sakral- Greek: εκκλησιαστικός (el) m (ekklisiastikós) Hungarian: egyházi (hu) Icelandic: kirkjulegur Irish: eaglasta Italian: ecclesiastico (it) Latin: ecclēsiasticus m Manx: agglishagh Norwegian: Bokmål: ekklesiastisk (no), kirkelig Old English: ċiriclīċ Polish: kościelny (pl), eklezjalny (pl) Portuguese: eclesiástico (pt), eclesial Romanian: ecleziastic (ro), bisericesc (ro) Russian: церко́вный (ru) (cerkóvnyj) Scottish Gaelic: eaglaiseil Slovak: cirkevný (sk) Spanish: eclesiástico (es), eclesial Swedish: kyrklig (sv), ecklesiastik (sv) (dated, rare) Ukrainian: церко́вний (uk) (cerkóvnyj) Vietnamese: (thuộc) giáo hội

See also

• Appendix:Ecclesiastical terms