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Ecclesiastic
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EcclesiasticA clergyman; one destined to the divine ministry, as, a bishop, a priest, a deacon.
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Bishop
An ecclesiastical officer, who is the chief of the clergy of his diocese, and is the archbishop's assistant.
Deacon
Ecclesiastical law. A minister or servant in the church whose office, in some churches, is to assist the priest in divine service, and the distribution of the sacrament.
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Ecclesia
In classical Greek this word signifies any assembly. But ordinarily, in the New Testament, the word denotes a Christian assembly, and is rendered into English by the word church.
Ecclesiastical
Belonging to, or set apart for the church.
Ecclesiastical courts
English law. Courts held by the king's authority as supreme governor of the church, for matters which chiefly concern religion.
Ecclesiastical law
By this phrase it is intended to include all those rules which govern ecclesiastical tribunals.
Ecclesiastics
Canon law. Those persons who compose the hierarchial state of the church. They are regular and secular.
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Easter term
English law. One of the four terms of the courts. It is now a fixed term beginning on the 15th of April and ending the 8th of May in every year. It was formerly a movable term.
Eat inde sine die
Words used on an acquittal, or when a prisoner is to be discharged, that he may go without day, that is, that he be dismissed.
Eaves-droppers
Criminal law. Persons as wait under walls or windows or the eaves of a house, to listen to discourses, and thereupon to frame mischievous tales.
Ecchymosis
Medical jurisprudence. Blackness. It is an extravasation of blood by rupture of capillary vessels, and hence it follows contusion; but it may exist, as in cases of scurvy, and other morbid conditions, without the latter.
Ecclesia
In classical Greek this word signifies any assembly. But ordinarily, in the New Testament, the word denotes a Christian assembly, and is rendered into English by the word church.
Ecclesiastic
Ecclesiastical
Belonging to, or set apart for the church.
Ecclesiastical courts
English law. Courts held by the king's authority as supreme governor of the church, for matters which chiefly concern religion.
Ecclesiastical law
By this phrase it is intended to include all those rules which govern ecclesiastical tribunals.
Ecclesiastics
Canon law. Those persons who compose the hierarchial state of the church. They are regular and secular.
Eclampsia parturientium
Medical jurisprudence. The name of a disease accompanied by apoplectic convulsions, and which produces aberration of mind at childbirth.
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Bishop
An ecclesiastical officer, who is the chief of the clergy of his diocese, and is the archbishop's assistant.
Deacon
Ecclesiastical law. A minister or servant in the church whose office, in some churches, is to assist the priest in divine service, and the distribution of the sacrament.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
Ecclesia
In classical Greek this word signifies any assembly. But ordinarily, in the New Testament, the word denotes a Christian assembly, and is rendered into English by the word church.
Ecclesiastical
Belonging to, or set apart for the church.
Ecclesiastical courts
English law. Courts held by the king's authority as supreme governor of the church, for matters which chiefly concern religion.
Ecclesiastical law
By this phrase it is intended to include all those rules which govern ecclesiastical tribunals.
Ecclesiastics
Canon law. Those persons who compose the hierarchial state of the church. They are regular and secular.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Easter term
English law. One of the four terms of the courts. It is now a fixed term beginning on the 15th of April and ending the 8th of May in every year. It was formerly a movable term.
Eat inde sine die
Words used on an acquittal, or when a prisoner is to be discharged, that he may go without day, that is, that he be dismissed.
Eaves-droppers
Criminal law. Persons as wait under walls or windows or the eaves of a house, to listen to discourses, and thereupon to frame mischievous tales.
Ecchymosis
Medical jurisprudence. Blackness. It is an extravasation of blood by rupture of capillary vessels, and hence it follows contusion; but it may exist, as in cases of scurvy, and other morbid conditions, without the latter.
Ecclesia
In classical Greek this word signifies any assembly. But ordinarily, in the New Testament, the word denotes a Christian assembly, and is rendered into English by the word church.
Ecclesiastic
Ecclesiastical
Belonging to, or set apart for the church.
Ecclesiastical courts
English law. Courts held by the king's authority as supreme governor of the church, for matters which chiefly concern religion.
Ecclesiastical law
By this phrase it is intended to include all those rules which govern ecclesiastical tribunals.
Ecclesiastics
Canon law. Those persons who compose the hierarchial state of the church. They are regular and secular.
Eclampsia parturientium
Medical jurisprudence. The name of a disease accompanied by apoplectic convulsions, and which produces aberration of mind at childbirth.
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