ecclesia
noun
an assembly, especially the popular assembly of ancient Athens.
ecclesiae
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pluralof ecclesia.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The main facts of his life, however, are stated in a long poem De triumphis ecclesiae contained in Cotton MS.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" by Various
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
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
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
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
