unecclesiastical

There is some rumour that he is or has been a clergyman, but one or two incidents of his short residence at the Hall struck me as peculiarly unecclesiastical.

The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist 1991

Accompanying his humility of spirit there was in his nature and his opinions an air of authority wholly unecclesiastical, purely personal, but immensely impressive.

Frank H. Nelson of Cincinnati Warren Crocker Herrick

He has been prominently identified with Missions, with the Methodist Book Room -- that sadly unecclesiastical corporation -- with debates in Conference on amusements and other things, with Methodist education.

The Masques of Ottawa Domino

The wretched Carter's hand flew to his neck, and he glared across the table in a very unecclesiastical manner.

Kathleen Christopher Morley 1923

From this we may conclude how unecclesiastical and at the same time how unscientific are those historians who prefer to explain the works of the Fathers without due regard for ecclesiastical tradition, which was the mental environment in which they lived and breathed.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

This summing-up of the case is in effect the poet's own, and is rich in the familiar prepossessions of Browning's individualist and unecclesiastical mind.

Robert Browning Herford, C H 1905

The saints in the windows looked odd and unecclesiastical; the whole suggestion of the place was uncanonical.

The Pit: A Story of Chicago 1903

The building no longer appeared secular, unecclesiastical.

The Pit: A Story of Chicago 1903

She was accused in 1876 of playing on the religious side of Mr. Gladstone's character to secure his interest in the Danubians as members of the Greek Church, while with unecclesiastical people she was said to be equally skilful on the political side, converting at the same time Anglophobe Russia by her letters in the "Moscow Gazette."

Biographical Study of A W Kinglake Tuckwell, Rev W 1902

It seems to me that the emotions aroused by such an Opera as _Ariane_ could only be fittingly expressed -- unecclesiastical as Blue Beard's character may appear -- in the frame of one of these old Catalonian churches.

Impressions and Comments Havelock Ellis 1899