ECCLESIASTIC

a. n.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
a.

Of or pertaining to the church. See Ecclesiastical. "Ecclesiastic government." Swift.

2.
n.

A person in holy orders, or consecrated to the service of the church and the ministry of religion; a clergyman; a priest. From a humble ecclesiastic, he was subsequently preferred to the highest dignities of the church. Prescott.

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