ecclesiastic

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Over the whole continent of Europe people seem to have had no homes; the merchant, the student, the soldier, the ecclesiastic were always on the move.

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  1. adjective Ecclesiastical.
  2. noun A minister or priest; a cleric.

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  1. Late Latin ecclēsiasticus, from Greek ekklēsiastikos, from ekklēsiastēs, a member of the ecclesia; see Ecclesiastes.

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  1. Formerly also ecclesiastick; from French ecclésiastique = Spanish ecclesiástico = Portuguese ecclesiastico = Italian ecclesiastico, ecchiesiastico, eccresiastico = Swedish ecklesiastik (cf. German ecclesiastisch = Danish ekklesiastisk = Swedish ecklesiastisk), from Latin ecclesiasticus, from Greek ἑκκλησιασ, σ1τικός, of or for the assembly, LGr. and Late Latin of or for the church (as a noun, a church officer, an ecclesiastic) (cf. ἑκκλησιασ, σ1τής, a member of the assembly, etc.), from ἑκκλησιάζειν, sit in the assembly, LGr. summon to church, etc.: see ecclesia, ecclesiast.
 

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/ɛklizɪˈæstɪk/
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