Usually means: Clergy or church officials collectively.
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  1. ecclesiastics: Merriam-Webster
  2. ecclesiastics: Collins English Dictionary
  3. ecclesiastics: Vocabulary.com
  4. Ecclesiastics, ecclesiastics: Wordnik
  5. ecclesiastics: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. ecclesiastics: Wiktionary
  7. ecclesiastics: Dictionary.com
  8. ecclesiastics: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. Ecclesiastics: Legal dictionary

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  1. ecclesiastics: Encyclopedia

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▸ noun:  The field of study of the church.

Similar:
ecclesiastical, cleric, churchman, divine, ecclesiology, ecumenics, communion ecclesiology, epistology, diaconiology, scholastics, more...

Opposite:
secular, lay, non-clerical



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Similar:
ecclesiastical, cleric, churchman, divine, ecclesiology, ecumenics, communion ecclesiology, epistology, diaconiology, scholastics, more...

Opposite:
secular, lay, non-clerical



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