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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Ecclesiastical.
  2. n. A minister or priest; a cleric.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Ecclesiastical; specifically, pertaining to the ministry or administration of the church.
  2. n. In early usage, a member of the orthodox church, as distinguished from Jews, pagans, infidels, and heretics.
  3. n. One holding an office in the Christian ministry, or otherwise officially consecrated to the service of the church: usually restricted to those connected with an episcopate, and in the middle ages to subordinate officials.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Of or pertaining to the church; ecclesiastical.
  2. n. One who adheres to a church-based philosophy.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Of or pertaining to the church. See ecclesiastical.
  2. n. A person in holy orders, or consecrated to the service of the church and the ministry of religion; a clergyman; a priest.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. of or associated with a church (especially a Christian Church)
  2. n. a clergyman or other person in religious orders

Etymologies

  1. From Latin ecclesia ("church"), originally from Greek ἐκκλησία ("church") (Wiktionary)
  2. Late Latin ecclēsiasticus, from Greek ekklēsiastikos, from ekklēsiastēs, a member of the ecclesia; see Ecclesiastes. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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