ECCLESIASTIC in a Sentence

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My inn had once been a part of an ancient ecclesiastical house, and I dined in a little octagonal common-room, like a font.

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 Meanings and Examples of ECCLESIASTIC
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
ecclesiastic
 a.  pertaining to church, specifically, to ministry or administration of church
Classic Sentence: (16 in 2 pages)
1  He was obviously an ecclesiastic of high rank; his dress was that of a Cistercian Monk, but composed of materials much finer than those which the rule of that order admitted.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
2  She watched the return of the supposed ecclesiastic, with the purpose of addressing him, and interesting him in favour of the prisoners; with what imperfect success the reader has been just acquainted.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
3  The aged ecclesiastic had turned his face towards me.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XII. The Adventure of The Final Problem
4  In this age there exist people who do not distinguish between the very great Saint Bernard and the Saint Bernard denominated of the poor Catholics, a certain good ecclesiastic who lived in the thirteenth century.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—MOTHER INNOCENTE
5  But his greatest trials were in the churchyard, which had the appearance of a primeval forest, with a kind of small ecclesiastical wash-house on one side, and a turnpike gate on the other.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXXI
6  My inn had once been a part of an ancient ecclesiastical house, and I dined in a little octagonal common-room, like a font.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter LII
7  Sleary himself, a stout modern statue with a money-box at its elbow, in an ecclesiastical niche of early Gothic architecture, took the money.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III
8  The saddle and housings of this superb palfrey were covered by a long foot-cloth, which reached nearly to the ground, and on which were richly embroidered, mitres, crosses, and other ecclesiastical emblems.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
9  In his eyes, of course, the ecclesiastical authority was the chief of all; he was religious, superficial and correct on this point as on all others.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—A SUITABLE TOMB
10  The Pope is the successor of St. Peter, and represents the three divine powers; the rest-ORDINES INFERIORES-of the ecclesiastical hierarchy bless in the name of the holy archangels and angels.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 26 ARAMIS AND HIS THESIS
11  He had a special passion, also, for ecclesiastical vestments, as indeed he had for everything connected with the service of the Church.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 11
12  It was regarded as a model of ecclesiastical, patriotic eloquence.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER I
13  But I thought Hooker alone might be enough to satisfy those men, who relying on him for their ecclesiastical polity, are by a strange fate carried to deny those principles upon which he builds it.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
14  "This gentleman, who is my friend, has just escaped from a serious danger," continued Aramis, with unction, pointing to d'Artagnan with his hand, and addressing the two ecclesiastics.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 26 ARAMIS AND HIS THESIS
15  Now, I have confessed to these learned ecclesiastics, and that in all humility, that the duties of mounting guard and the service of the king have caused me to neglect study a little.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 26 ARAMIS AND HIS THESIS
Example Sentence:
1  This talented ecclesiastic is also responsible for restoration of the Church in Tlalpan, on the outskirts of the Federal District.