ecclesiastic
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- n a clergyman or other person in religious orders
- a of or associated with a church (especially a Christian Church)
ecclesiastic history
- When would the new Pope tear into the ecclesiastic "filth" inside his church and the "dictatorship of relativism" outside it that he had diagnosed preconclave?.
- Out of an airplane in Moscow last Sunday stepped a benign ecclesiastic in a purple cassock and cap.
- Only the Orthodox clergy are entitled to give ecclesiastic guidance to the military.