ECCLESIASTICAL


Meaning of ECCLESIASTICAL in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

authority

These were all implicit attacks upon higher ecclesiastical authority .

Hugh accepted this position at the insistence of ecclesiastical authorities .

These four decided against the Master, but he appealed to the ecclesiastical authority of the Bishop of Chester.

That this fact was well appreciated by civil and ecclesiastical authorities is illustrated by the history of Our Lady of Einsiedeln.

The State winched him out of the professorial chair when the ecclesiastical authority was lukewarm.

Certainly Chester, which was the successor to the Diocese of Lichfield as the ecclesiastical authority for Stockport, offered great opportunities.

building

Being published, originally, in 1655-73 it is of the greatest importance in connection with ecclesiastical buildings up to that time.

By the eleventh century a number of towns existed along the valley and important civic and ecclesiastical buildings were erected.

court

Marriage was expected to last for life and adultery and fornication were punished in the ecclesiastical courts .

Prerogative Office, ecclesiastical court in which wills were proved and probate granted.

Judicial separation by the ecclesiastical courts , which did not give a licence to remarry.

hierarchy

Some idea of status has to be obtained, therefore, if the local ecclesiastical hierarchy is to be understood.

There were no official mediators, licensed by an ecclesiastical hierarchy or set apart by apostolic ordination.

Belliustin called upon the tsar to circumvent the ecclesiastical hierarchy and breathe life into the clerical estate.

history

The Gurney Library of some 15,000 books concerns, mainly, ecclesiastical history .

But these ecclesiastical histories appealed to restricted, educated circles.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Aelfwald was certainly involved with Northumbrian ecclesiastical developments.

Appeal to ecclesiastical censure as a way of explaining the misfortunes of scientific theories is a card that can be overplayed.

He failed because he could not carry his sergeants with him and because of the jealousy of ecclesiastical Santiago against mercantile Corunna.

He was helped by ecclesiastical wealth and power.

In the nineteenth century architects had largely been concerned with special buildings produced for civic, commercial, ecclesiastical and landowner clients.

Prerogative Office, ecclesiastical court in which wills were proved and probate granted.

The second excommunicated all clergy who did homage to laymen for ecclesiastical possessions, as well as those who associated with them afterwards.

These were all implicit attacks upon higher ecclesiastical authority.

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