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e Whig, and is now called the Liberal, party; an earnest supporter of exsisting royal and ecclesiastical authority.

An ecclesiastical who holds but one benefice; -- distinguished from pluralist. [Eng.] V. Knox.

learning. The present universities of Europe were, originally, the greater part of them, ecclesiastical corporations, instituted for the education of churchmen . . . What was taught in the greater part of those universities was suitable to the end of their institutions, either theology or something that was merely pre…

The thirteenth, or intercalary, month of the Jewish ecclesiastical calendar, which is added about every third year.

A sect of dissenters from the ecclesiastical system of the Roman Catholic Church, who in the 13th century were driven by persecution to the valleys of Piedmont, where the sect survives. They profess substantially Protestant principles.

The second month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, corresponding to our May.