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‖n.; pl. Ecclesiæ [ L., fr. Gr. &unr_;. ] 1. (Gr. Antiq.) The public legislative assembly of the Athenians. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Eccl.) A church, either as a body or as a building. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Ecclesiastical. [ Obs. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. ecclesiarcha, fr. Gr. &unr_; church + &unr_; to rule: cf. F. ecclésiarque. ] An official of the Eastern Church, resembling a sacrist in the Western Church. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. An ecclesiastic. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The Apocryphal book of Ecclesiasticus. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L., fr. Gr. &unr_; a preacher. See Ecclesiastic, a. ] One of the canonical books of the Old Testament. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. ecclesiasticus, Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_; an assembly of citizens called out by the crier; also, the church, fr. &unr_; called out, fr. &unr_; to call out; 'ek out + &unr_; to call. See Ex-, and Hale, v. t., Haul. ] Of or pertaining to the church. See Ecclesiastical. “Ecclesiastic government.” Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A person in holy orders, or consecrated to the service of the church and the ministry of religion; a clergyman; a priest. [ 1913 Webster ]

From a humble ecclesiastic, he was subsequently preferred to the highest dignities of the church. Prescott. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Ecclesiastical, a. ] Of or pertaining to the church; relating to the organization or government of the church; not secular; as, ecclesiastical affairs or history; ecclesiastical courts. [ 1913 Webster ]

Every circumstance of ecclesiastical order and discipline was an abomination. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ecclesiastical commissioners for England, a permanent commission established by Parliament in 1836, to consider and report upon the affairs of the Established Church. --
Ecclesiastical courts, courts for maintaining the discipline of the Established Church; -- called also Christian courts. [ Eng. ] --
Ecclesiastical law, a combination of civil and canon law as administered in ecclesiastical courts. [ Eng. ] --
Ecclesiastical modes (Mus.), the church modes, or the scales anciently used. --
Ecclesiastical States, the territory formerly subject to the Pope of Rome as its temporal ruler; -- called also States of the Church. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an ecclesiastical manner; according ecclesiastical rules. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Strong attachment to ecclesiastical usages, forms, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. ] A book of the Apocrypha. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Belonging to ecclesiology. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One versed in ecclesiology. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Ecclesia + -logy. ] The science or theory of church building and decoration. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL. ] (Bot.) A genus of American shrubs containing several species, called snowdrop trees, or silver-bell trees. They have showy, white flowers, drooping on slender pedicels. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. il- not + L. laedere, laesum, to injure. ] Not injurious; harmless. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. lésion, L. laesio, fr. laedere, laesum, to hurt, injure. ] A hurt; an injury. Specifically: (a) (Civil Law) Loss sustained from failure to fulfill a bargain or contract. Burrill. (b) (Med.) Any morbid change in the exercise of functions or the texture of organs. Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. Megalesius, fr. Gr. Mega`lh the Great, a surname of Cybele, the Magna Mater. ] Pertaining to, or in honor of, Cybele; as, the Megalesian games at Rome. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. Milesius, Gr. &unr_;. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Anc. Geog.) Of or pertaining to Miletus, a city of Asia Minor, or to its inhabitants. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Irish Legendary Hist.) Descended from King Milesius of Spain, whose two sons are said to have conquered Ireland about 1300 b. c.; or pertaining to the descendants of King Milesius; hence, Irish. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A native or inhabitant of Miletus. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A native or inhabitant of Ireland. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. millesimus, fr. mille a thousand. ] Thousandth; consisting of thousandth parts; as, millesimal fractions. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; disturbance, fr. 'o`chlos crowd, mob. ] (Med.) A general morbid condition induced by the crowding together of many persons, esp. sick persons, under one roof. G. Gregory. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ }, n. Palsy. [ Obs. ] Wyclif. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; near + morfh` form. ] (Crystallog.) The property possessed by some substances of crystallizing in closely similar forms while unlike in chemical composition. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Nearly alike in form. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Paleon.) One of the Plesiosauria. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL. See Plesiosaurus. ] (Paleon.) An extinct order of Mesozoic marine reptiles including the genera Plesiosaurus, and allied forms; -- called also Sauropterygia. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Paleon.) A plesiosaur. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Plesiosauri [ NL., fr. Gr &unr_; near + &unr_; a lizard. ] (Paleon.) A genus of large extinct marine reptiles, having a very long neck, a small head, and paddles for swimming. It lived in the Mesozoic age. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL. Named from its discoverer, Sir S. Raffles. ] (Bot.) A genus of stemless, leafless plants, living parasitically upon the roots and stems of grapevines in Malaysia. The flowers have a carrionlike odor, and are very large, in one species (Rafflesia Arnoldi) having a diameter of two or three feet. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., from Gr. &unr_; a splitting into fragments. ] (Anat.) A form of articulation in which one bone is received into a groove or slit in another. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A kind of linen cloth, originally made in Silesia, a province of Prussia. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A twilled cotton fabric, used for dress linings. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to Silesia. -- n. A native or inhabitant of Silesia. [ 1913 Webster ]