Ecclesiastic - Law Dictionary Search Results

Cincture

A belt a girdle or something worn round the body as by an ecclesiastic for confining the alb

Primate

Primate, a chief ecclesiastic; part of the style and title of an archbishop; thus the Archbishop of Canter-bury is styled Primate of

Spirituality

Spirituality, that which belongs to one as an ecclesiastic.

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Admonition

Admonition, a judicial or ecclesiastic censure or reprimand. See MONITION. Admonition, means a mild rebuke, Webster Law Dictionary, p. 19. Means a reprimand

the three ex-officio trustees of the British Museum. Being, in the earlier periods of our history, usually an ecclesiastic (for none else was then capable of an office so conversant in writings), and presiding over the royal

Chaplain

Chaplain [fr. Capellanus, Lat.], an ecclesiastic who performs divine service in a chapel; but it mere commonly means one who attends upon a king,

Civil Law

its influence, and entered largely into the composition of the Common Law. Under the influence of the foreign ecclesiastics, who, pouring into this country after the Conquest, long monopolized the administration of the law, great encouragement was

Prebend

confounded with canonicate; but there is a difference between them. The former is the stipend granted to an ecclesiastic in consideration of his officiating and serving in the church; whereas the canonicate is a mere title or

Seminarian

A member of or one educated in a seminary specifically an ecclesiastic educated for the priesthood in a seminary

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