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单词 ecclesiae
释义

ecclesia /i-klēˈzi-ə/

noun
  1. A popular assembly, esp of ancient Athens, where the people exercised full sovereignty and every male citizen above twenty years could vote
  2. Applied by the Septuagint commentators to the Jewish commonwealth, and from them to the Christian Church
ORIGIN: LL, from Gr ekklēsia an assembly called out of the world, the church, from ek out of, and kaleein to call

ecclēˈsial adjective

ecclēˈsiarch /-ärk/ noun (archaic)

A ruler of the church

ecclēˈsiast noun

  1. ‘the preacher’, the name given to the author of Ecclesiastes
  2. An ecclesiastic

Ecclesiasˈtes noun

One of the books of the Old Testament, traditionally supposed to have been written by Solomon

ecclesiasˈtic noun (formal)

A person consecrated to the church, such as a priest or a clergyman

ecclesiasˈtic or ecclesiasˈtical adjective

Relating to the church or to the clergy

ecclesiasˈtically adverb

ecclesiasˈticism /-sizm/ noun

  1. Excessive regard for ecclesiastical rules and observances
  2. The principles constituting organized Christianity

Ecclesiasˈticus noun

One of the books of the Apocrypha

ecclesiolˈater noun

ecclesiolˈatry noun

(Gr latreiā worship) excessive reverence for ecclesiastical traditions

ecclesiologˈical adjective

ecclesiolˈogist noun

ecclesiolˈogy noun

  1. The study of ecclesiastical traditions and of church architecture and decoration
  2. The study or knowledge of the church

ecclesiastical year see under year

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