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    ECCLESIASTIC

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    A clergyman or other person in religious ordersplay

    Synonyms:

    churchman; cleric; divine; ecclesiastic

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting people

    Hypernyms ("ecclesiastic" is a kind of...):

    clergyman; man of the cloth; reverend (a member of the clergy and a spiritual leader of the Christian Church)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ecclesiastic"):

    ordainer (a cleric who ordains; a cleric who admits someone to holy orders)

    pardoner (a medieval cleric who raised money for the church by selling papal indulgences)

    pluralist (a cleric who holds more than one benefice at a time)

    Instance hyponyms:

    a Kempis; Thomas a Kempis (German ecclesiastic (1380-1471))

    Bruno; Saint Bruno; St. Bruno ((Roman Catholic Church) a French cleric (born in Germany) who founded the Carthusian order in 1084 (1032-1101))

     II. (adjective) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Of or associated with a church (especially a Christian Church)play

    Example:

    ecclesiastic history

    Synonyms:

    ecclesiastic; ecclesiastical

    Classified under:

    Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

    Pertainym:

    church (one of the groups of Christians who have their own beliefs and forms of worship)

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