ecclesia
Americannoun
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ecclesiae
plural
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an assembly, especially the popular assembly of ancient Athens.
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a congregation; church.
noun
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(in formal Church usage) a congregation
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the assembly of citizens of an ancient Greek state
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Etymology
Origin of ecclesia
1570–80; < Latin < Greek ekklēsía assembly, equivalent to ékklēt ( os ) summoned ( ek- ec- + klē-, variant of kal-, stem of kaleîn to call, + -tos past participle suffix) + -ia -ia
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An ecclesia, therefore, is a body called out.
From The American Church Dictionary and Cyclopedia by William James Miller
The sacerdotal theory.—Broadly speaking, however, there are two outstanding views as to the scope and function of the ecclesia, or church of Jesus.
From The New Theology by R. J. (Reginald John) Campbell
This properly constituted ecclesia to which the level-headed town clerk referred was the general assembly of the citizens for the transaction of public business.
From The New Theology by R. J. (Reginald John) Campbell
But while Wolsey,—that “butcher’s dogge,” as some jealous contemporary called him,—rendered much service to the Church, Cromwell, like his namesake, had a genius for destruction, and became a veritable malleus ecclesia.
From The Portsmouth Road and Its Tributaries To-Day and in Days of Old by Charles G. (Charles George) Harper
As being the one important church, it was also known as ecclesia major.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various
During this period, too, the Gallican Church adopted the collection of councils and decretals, called later the Codex canonum ecclesiae Gallicanae, which she continued to preserve.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 8 "France" to "Francis Joseph I." by Various
A parson, persona ecclesiae, is one that hath full possession of all the rights of a parochial church.
From Commentaries on the Laws of England Book the First by Sir William Blackstone
Similar development of the idea of the one ecclesia as including all members of all local ecclesiae does not lead St Paul to regard membership of the universal church as invisible.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" by Various
Thus we learn that when Thurstan, Archbishop of York, visited the Pope at Blois in 1120, he was accompanied by “duo archidiaconi ecclesiae nostrae et scholasticus.”
From Education in England in the Middle Ages Thesis Approved for the Degree of Doctor of Science in the University of London by Albert William Parry
He wrote the De jure Meneviensis ecclesiae in support of the claims of his diocese.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" by Various
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