ecclesiastic

• “This talented ecclesiastic is also responsible for restoration of the El Calvario ( "Calvary") Church in Tlalpan, on the outskirts of the Federal District.”

  Priest, poet, educator: the multiple talents of Manuel Ponce (1913–1994)

• “The titled ecclesiastic and the ambitious statesman should have their warning on this point.”

  The Conflict with Slavery, Part 1, from Volume VII, The Works of Whittier: the Conflict with Slavery, Politics and Reform, the Inner Life and Criticism

• “The abstruse question of the eternity of the Logos was agitated in ecclesiastic conferences and popular sermons; and the heterodox opinions of Arius 43 were soon made public by his own zeal, and by that of his adversaries.”

  The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

• “O for a titled ecclesiastic to curse to excommunication that unholy thing!”

  Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith

• “The ecclesiastic was to be a wise and prudent person, and to be informed how little confidence Montigny inspired in the article of faith.”

  The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1555-84)

• “Ford had heard a flippant young Frenchman speak of him as an "ancien curé, qui a fait quelque bêtise"; and indeed there was about him that stamp of the ecclesiastic which is sometimes ineffaceable.”

  The Wild Olive

• “One minute you're making a sarcastic observation about how Sepp Blatter is rarely seen these days without a white silk scarf draped across his shoulders like some kind of ecclesiastic stole, and next the Light of Nyon is declaring himself Pope of the Holy Fifa Empire and excommunicating dope testers.”

  Football news, match reports and fixtures | guardian.co.uk

• “spiritual person," "ecclesiastic," an injustice has been done, since they have been transferred from the remaining body of Christians to those few who are now, by hurtful custom, called ecclesiastics.”

  Concerning Christian Liberty

• “A sinner among the saints, his ecclesiastic ecstasies murmur dark humors, spiced amber musk, memoirs from sanity's darkest edge.”

  Gift

• “Madsen had originally opted to exclude ecclesiastic voices, but there was a theologian on the nuclear council in Sweden, whose waste Finland is storing, and to whom Madsen was referred by the Finnish, who told him, "Look Michael, for philosophical questions you have to talk to the Swedish.”

  The Huffington Post: Michael Vazquez: Weekend Film: On Into Eternity

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