Literary notes about ecclesiastical (AI summary)
Writers employ "ecclesiastical" to describe matters pertaining to the church, its architecture, laws, and historical narratives. In historical accounts, it characterizes religious authorities and institutions, as seen when rulers are freed from persecution or when religious structures are credited with architectural significance ([1], [2], [3]). The term also surfaces in discussions of church history and governance, highlighting the dual nature of ecclesiastical influence both as a subject in detailed chronicles and as an influence in legal or doctrinal contexts ([4], [5], [6]). Even in literature that steps beyond strict historical analysis, "ecclesiastical" is used to convey themes of religious dress, cultural identity, and the interplay between sacred and secular spheres ([7], [8], [9]).
- In this passive and unanimous state the ecclesiastical rulers were relieved from the toil, or deprived of the pleasure, of persecution.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon - Romanesque architecture was pre-eminently ecclesiastical.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - The ecclesiastical government of Constantine cannot be justified from the reproach of levity and weakness.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon - Many ecclesiastical and monastic foundations throughout Ireland and Scotland are attributed to him.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Saint the Venerable Bede - The scanty and suspicious materials of ecclesiastical history seldom enable us to dispel the dark cloud that hangs over the first age of the church.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon - Under ecclesiastical law he was not permitted to will her more than one-third, and could leave her as much less as he pleased.
— from History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I - “I wish you,” she said, “to dress me up in your ecclesiastical clothes, and I will disguise you as a woman with my own things.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova - Instances are, however, rare in England, though common in Ireland, where the clan system affected ecclesiastical preferments.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Saint the Venerable Bede - The third was to have treated of Government, both ecclesiastical and civil — and this was what chiefly stopped my going on.
— from The Rape of the Lock, and Other Poems by Alexander Pope
