Ecclesiast

Quick meaning: Ecclesiast is a noun meaning A member of the Athenian ecclesia (public legislative assembly).

Meaning

A member of the Athenian ecclesia (public legislative assembly).

More Meanings

1. A cleric; someone (such as a priest) who administers a church (ecclesia) or other religious gathering/group.
2. (rare) A member of any ecclesia (church or other assembly).

Example Sentences

Leonti Mroveli, it is assumed, was an ecclesiast, Mroveli being the adjective for the diocese of Ruisi, whose bishop he probably was. His shadow is very faint: textual evidence leaves us with A1) 1072 as the latest date at which he could have written .

Menodora, from the otherwise unknown city of Sillyon, distributed cash awards [...] 77 [denarii] for each member of the assembly [...] In this city the members of the assembly (ecclesiasts) were clearly a privileged group, not co-extensive with the citizenry as a whole, The ecclesiasts’ wives were also a privileged category.

The priests and nuns in the camp proved that they had real strength of character. One rarely met that except in deportees who were animated by faith in an ideal. Apart from the clerics, only the active members of the underground, or the militant communists, had that spirit. Many of the ecclesiasts were executed shortly after they arrived.

Furthermore, the large numbers of conversions in the Vietnamese polities of Tonkin and Cochinchina, widely publicized in Europe in the 1650s by jesuit Alexandre de Rhodes, had caused a dilemma. There were not enough priests to minister to these expanding flocks, yet the ecclesiasts of the Padroado Church were reluctant to sanction the ordination of local Christians.

Word Forms

• ecclesiasts

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include ecclesia, ekklesia, lexiarch, apella, ecclesiastic, dicastery.

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