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srikanth.malipatel commented on the word ecclesiastic, clergyman, churchman
Pertaning to church or a cleric in church.
P.S When you see an English word that begins with the eccles bit, you can be pretty sure that its meaning will somehow involve religious matters. That’s because ekklēsia is the Greek word for church and it has influenced the spelling of many English words of a religious nature, such as ecclesial, ecclesiolatry, and ecclesiarch.
August 27, 2013