What does ecclesiastical mean?
Ecclesiastical means Of or pertaining to the church..
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/əˌkli.ziˈæ.stə.kəl/ · adjective
Of or pertaining to the church..
ecclesiastical architecture
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."
Use ecclesiastical when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Ecclesiastical means Of or pertaining to the church..
Common synonyms include churchical, churchish, churchlike, churchly.
Possible antonyms include antiecclesiastical, nonecclesiastical, nonchurchly, nonecclesiastic.
ecclesiastical architecture
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