Words similar to ecclesiastical
Example sentences for: ecclesiastical
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Gracious and bustling Braga (22 km/13 miles northwest of Guimarães) is the 12th-century ecclesiastical center of Portugal, today famous for its Holy Week celebrations (see page 136).
The 16th-century church is a rare ecclesiastical building by Andrea Palladio, the master Renaissance architect from nearby Vicenza whose classic designs have so dominated aristocratic residential architecture throughout Europe and North America.
In hindsight, his ecclesiastical networking during and after Vatican II made him a logical candidate once it was clear no Italian cardinal could win election.
The guild takes many forms now, but it retains much of the Middle Ages, of the ecclesiastical Schoolmen, who gathered together in quasi-monastic “colleges,” behind walls that marked them off from the rest of the world (a phenomenon that in England is still called “town and gown”).
The private language of a man like that would be both simpler and more strange, more original, than Frazier's ecclesiastical English.