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The European green woodpecker; -- also called ecall, eaquall, yaffle. [Prov. Eng.]

The public legislative assembly of the Athenians.

Ecclesiastical. [Obs.] Milton.

An official of the Eastern Church, resembling a sacrist in the Western Church.

An ecclesiastic. Chaucer.

One of the canonical books of the Old Testament.

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

to the church; relating to the organization or government of the church; not secular; as, ecclesiastical affairs or history; ecclesiastical courts. Every circumstance of ecclesiastical order and discipline was an abomination. Cowper. Ecclesiastical commissioners for England, a permanent commission established by Parlia…

In an ecclesiastical manner; according ecclesiastical rules.

Strong attachment to ecclesiastical usages, forms, etc.

A book of the Apocrypha.

Belonging to ecclesiology.

One versed in ecclesiology.

The science or theory of church building and decoration.

The fifth month of the Jewish year according to the ecclesiastical reckoning, the eleventh by the civil computation, coinciding nearly with August. W. Smith.

of an abbey; but commonly a title of respect given in France to every one vested with the ecclesiastical habit or dress.

The first month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, corresponding nearly to our April. After the Babylonish captivity this month was called Nisan. Kitto.

An absolving from ecclesiastical penalties, -- for example, excommunication. P. Cyc.

Act of accentuating; applications of accent. Specifically (Eccles. Mus.),

The twelfth month of the Hebrew ecclesiastical year, and the sixth of the civil. It corresponded nearly with March.