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ecclesiastical society

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noun

  1. (in Congregational churches) a legal corporation with power to sue and be sued and to administer all of the temporalities of the church.


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These things marked Velletri at once as a member of an ecclesiastical society.

From The Son of Monte-Cristo, Volume II by Lermina, Jules

We shall see in the sequel that they stood in a peculiar relation of dependence upon ecclesiastical society.

From Wine, Women, and Song Mediaeval Latin Students' songs; Now first translated into English verse by Symonds, John Addington

But by naming Tertullian we suggest one view, at least, of the ecclesiastical society which Origen would meet when he visited Rome.

From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Rameur, E.

The nine or ten gentlemen who constitute the board of trustees meet in the capacity of an ecclesiastical society.

From Laicus; Or, the Experiences of a Layman in a Country Parish. by Abbott, Lyman

Constitution, Subsequent Laws.—An ecclesiastical society formed before the adoption of the state constitution is not by that constitution and subsequent laws concerning religious societies divested of its legal character.125 69.

From The Clergyman's Hand-book of Law by Scanlan, Charles M.

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