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See eckle1. = = Eccles. An abbreviation (a) of Ecclesiastes ; (b) [l. c.] of ecclesiastical . ecclesia (e-klēʻzi-ä), n.; pl. ecclesiæ, ecclesias (-6, -az). [= F. église glicia (also ecclesia ), church, ecclesia , an a em- bly of the (Greek) k) people, LL. (also, as in ML., sometimes eclesia ) a church, congregation of Christians, = Ar. kelise , kenise = Turk. kilise = Pers. kalis a , kanisa , a church, ἐκκλησία , an a embly of the people, LGr. an a embly of Christians, a church, ( έκκλητος , summoned, Preclesiaa gleiza , glieyza , Sp. Sp. igles iglesia = Pg. igreja = It. chiesa The people in the United States,... planted, as they are, over large dominions, cannot meet in one a embly, and therefore are not exposed to those tumultuous commot i ous, like the raging waves of the sea, which always agitated the ecclesia at Athens. J. Adams , Works, IV. 491. 1829 In ancient Greece and Italy the primitive clan-a embly or township-meeting did not grow by aggregation into the a embly of the shire, but it developed into the comitia or • ecclesia of the city. J. Fiske, Amer. Pol. Ideas, p. 67. 2. A society for Christian worship; a church; a congregation: the Greek and Latin name, sometimes used in English writing with reference to the early church. ecclesialt (e-klē'zi-al), a. [ Our ecclesial and political choices. Milton , Reformation in Eng., ii. It is not the part of a King... to meddle with Eccle sial Government. Milton , Eikon ok las tes, xiii. ecclesian (e-klēʼzi-an), n. [ ecclesia nus , a supporter of the church as against the civil power, also as adj., ecclesia , the church: see ecclesia.] One who maintains the supremacy of the ecclesiastical domination over the civil power. Imp . Dict. ecclesiarch (e-klē'zi-ärk), n. [ F.ecclésiarque , ἐκκλησιάρχης , ἐκκλησία , an a embly, + ἀρχός , a leader.] 1. A ruler of the church; an ecclesiastical magnate. Bailey , 1727.-2. In the Gr . Ch ., a sacrist or sacristan; a church officer who has charge of a church and its contents, and summons the worshipers by semantron or otherwise. In the more important churches the ecclesiarch formerly had minor officials under his authority. ecclesiast (e-klē'zi-ast), n. [ ecclesia ste ; = F. ecclésiaste , ecclesiastes , σιαστής , in cla ical Gr. a member of the a embly (ecclesia), ἐκκλησιάζειν , sit in the a embly, debate as an a embly, later call an a embly, LGr. summon to church, come into the church, ἐκκλησία , an a embly of the people, LGr. a church: see ecclesia . The word έκκλησιαστής is usually translated 'preacher, but this is an imperfect rendering, being rather an inference from the verb ἐκκλησιάζειν in its later sense, 'call an a embly' (hence, by inference, give it directions or admonitions), or from the Heb. word of similar import.] 1. An ecclesiastic; one who addre es the church or a embly of the faithful; a preacher or sacred orator; specifically, with the definite article, Coheleth, or the Preacher-that is, Solomon, or the author of the book of Ecclesiastes. ecclesiastical II. n. 1. In early usage, a member of the orthodox church, as distinguished from Jews, pagans, infidels, and heretics. I must here observe farther that the name of ecclesias tics was sometimes attributed to all Christians in general. Bentham . 2. One holding an office in the Christian ministry, or otherwise officially consecrated to the service of the church: usually restricted to those connected with an episcopate, and in the middle ages to subordinate officials. Among the Roman Catholics, all monks, and, in the Church of England, the various dignitaries who perform the episcopal functions, are entitled ecclesiastics. Crabb, English Synonymes, p. 369. From a humble ecclesiastic , he was subsequently preferred to the highest dignities of the church. Pre scott . ecclesiastical (e-klē-zi-as'ti-kal), a. [ clesiastical discipline or government; ecclesias tical affairs, history, or polity; ecclesiastical courts. Sometimes abbreviated eccl ., eccles . There are in men operations, some natural, some ra- tional, some supernatural, some politic, some finally ec- clesiastical. Hooker, Eccles. Polity, i. 16. A Bishop, as a Bishop, had never any Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction. Selden , Table-Talk, p. 22. The Anglo-Saxon sovereigns, acting in the closest union with their bishops, made ecclesiastical laws which clothed the spiritual enactments with coercive authority. Stubbs, Medieval and Modern Hist., p. 298. Ecclesiastical books, in the early church , books allowed to be read in church, especially those read for edification and for the instruction of catechumens, but not belonging in the strictest sense to the canon of Scripture. This name was applied to such books as those named in the sixth of the Thirty-nine Articles of the Church of England, after the canonical books of the Old Testament, as "the other books," and collected in the King James Bible under the heading "Apocrypha." - Ecclesiastical calendar. See calendar. Ecclesiastical colors, See color . - Ecclesiastical commi ion. ( a ) A court appointed by Queen Elizabeth, and invested by her with nearly absolute powers, for the purpose of regulating religious opinions, and punishing all departure from the church standards either in doctrine or in ritual. It was subsequently abolished by Parliament. (b) A standing commi ion in England, created by Parliament in the early part of the nineteenth century, invested with important powers for the reform of the established church. Its plans have to be submitted, after due notice to persons interested, to the sovereign in council, and be ratified by orders in council; but after ratification and due publication they have the same effect as acts of Parliament. Ecclesiastical councils. See council , 7.-Ecclesiastical courts, church courts in which the canon law is administered and ecclesiastical causes are tried. In countries in which the church is established by law the decisions of these courts have a binding legal effect, and the courts constitute a part of the judicial machinery of the community; in other countries their decisions are binding only within the church, and enforced only by Thackeray , Vanitas Vanitatum. church discipline. In England there are several ecclesi He was in chirche a noble ecclesia ste. Chaucer, Gen. Prol. to C. Т., 1. 708. Though thrice a you sand years are past Since David's son, the sad and splendid, The weary King Ecclesiast , Upon his awful tablets penned it. 21. [ cap.] Ecclesiastic us. Redeth Ecclesia ste of flaterie Beth ware, ye lordes, of hire trecherie. Chaucer, Nun's Priest's Tale, 1. 507. Ecclesiastes (e-klē-zi-as'tēz), n. [LL., Qõhēleth , lit. he who calls together an a embly of the people, the gatherer of the people, fem. (in use masc.) part. qūhal , call, call tog together (otherwise defined 'heap together'). See ecclesiast .] One of the books of the Old Testament, also called the Preacher . Ecclesiastes is the Greek title in the Septuagint version. But preacher, in its modern signification, is not synonymous with the original. (See the etymology.) The book is a dramatic presentation of the fruitle ne of a life devoted to worldly pleasure or ambition. It purports to be a record of the experience and reflections of Solomon, to whom its authorship is often attributed, but on this point Biblical critics disagree. Often abbreviated Eccl ., Eccles . =