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The body of laws or statutes of a chapter, or of an ecclesiastical council.

1. (R.C.Ch.) One of the ecclesiastical prince who constitute the pope's council, or the sacred college. The clerics of the supreme Chair are called Cardinals, as undoubtedly adhering more nearly to the hinge by which all things are moved. Pope Leo IX.

An ecclesiastical officer who had charge of records or other public papers.

The spiritual head of the Armenian church, who resides at Etchmiadzin, Russia, and has ecclesiastical jurisdiction over, and consecrates the holy oil for, the Armenians of Russia, Turkey, and Persia, including the Patriarchs of Constantinople, Jerusalem, and Sis.

Judicial or ecclesiastical sentence or reprimand; condemnatory judgment. Excommunication or other censure of the church. Bp. Burnet.

wer but once in a century; - - hence the name. See Agave. -- The Magdeburg Centuries, an ecclesiastical history of the first thirteen centuries, arranged in thirteen volumes, compiled in the 16th century by Protestant scholars at Magdeburg.

A chapel within the jurisdiction of a church; a subordinate ecclesiastical foundation.

The ninth month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, answering to a part of November with a part of December.

Pertaining to the church; ecclesiastical; as, a Christian court. Blackstone.

n believers, holding the same creed, observing the same rites, and acknowledging the same ecclesiastical authority; a denomination; as, the Roman Catholic church; the Presbyterian church.

Pertaining to, or suitable for, the church; ecclesiastical.

Pertaining to civic life and affairs, in distinction from military, ecclesiastical, or official state.

An ecclesiastical body or judicat

l investigation; capable of being judicially heard and determined. Cognizable both in the ecclesiastical and secular courts. Ayliffe.

A partner or associate in some civil or ecclesiastical office or employment. It is never used of partners in trade or manufactures.

An officer on the bishop, who exercises ecclesiastical jurisdiction in parts of the diocese at a distance from the residence of the bishop. Ayliffe.

yard in London where the doctors of civil law used to common together, and where were the ecclesiastical and admiralty courts and offices having jurisdiction of marriage licenses, divorces, registration of wills, etc. -- To be on short commons, to have small allowance of food. [Colloq.]

II, on condition of a general amnesty and of guarantees for the security of the civil and ecclesiastical constitution of the realm.

A small or private assembly, especially of an ecclesiastical nature. [Obs.] Bacon.

An obscure ecclesiastical council; a conciliable. Milman.