[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

ecclesiastical \eccle`sias"tical\, a. see ecclesiastical,
   a.
   of or pertaining to the church; relating to the organization
   or government of the church; not secular; as, ecclesiastical
   affairs or history; ecclesiastical courts.
   1913 webster

         every circumstance of ecclesiastical order and
         discipline was an abomination.           --cowper.
   1913 webster

   ecclesiastical commissioners for england, a permanent
      commission established by parliament in 1836, to consider
      and report upon the affairs of the established church.

   ecclesiastical courts, courts for maintaining the
      discipline of the established church; -- called also
      christian courts. eng.

   ecclesiastical law, a combination of civil and canon law as
      administered in ecclesiastical courts. eng.

   ecclesiastical modes mus., the church modes, or the
      scales anciently used.

   ecclesiastical states, the territory formerly subject to
      the pope of rome as its temporal ruler; -- called also
      states of the church.
      1913 webster
see also:
ecclesiastical ecclesiastical commissioners for england ecclesiastical courts christian courts ecclesiastical law ecclesiastical modes 
ecclesiastical states states of the church 

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