Ecclesia

[i'kli:ziә]

解釋/意思:

(n.) The public legislative assembly of the Athenians.

(n.) A church, either as a body or as a building.

整理:苏西

解釋/意思:

n. a popular assembly esp. of Athens where the people exercised full sovereignty and all above twenty years could vote: applied by the Septuagint commentators to the Jewish commonwealth and from them to the Christian Church.—adj. Ecclē′sial.—ns. Ecclē′siarch a ruler of the church; Ecclē′siast the preacher—Solomon formerly considered as the author of Ecclesiastes: an ecclesiastic; Ecclē′siastes one of the books of the Old Testament traditionally ascribed to Solomon; Ecclesias′tic one consecrated to the church a priest a clergyman.—adjs. Ecclē′siastic -al belonging to the church.—adv. Ecclesias′tically in an ecclesiastical manner.—ns. Ecclesias′ticism attachment to ecclesiastical observances &c.: the churchman's temper or spirit; Ecclesias′ticus name of a book of the Apocrypha; Ecclesiol′atry excessive reverence for church forms and traditions.—adj. Ecclesiolog′ical.—ns. Ecclesiol′ogist a student of church forms and traditions; Ecclesiol′ogy the science of building and decorating churches: the science relating to the church.

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