Ec*cle`si*as"tic , Haul.]
Of or pertaining to the church. See Ecclesiastical.
"
Ecclesiastic government."
Swift.
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Ec*cle`si*as"tic, n.
A person in holy orders, or consecrated to the service of the church and the ministry of religion; a clergyman; a priest.
From a humble ecclesiastic, he was subsequently preferred to the highest dignities of the church.
Prescott.
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