ECCLESIAS'TIC, ECCLESIAS'TICAL,. [L; Gr.an assembly or meeting, whence a church; to call forth or convoke; to call.]
Pertaining or relating to the church; as ecclesiastical discipline or government; ecclesiastical affairs, history or policy; ecclesiastical courts.
Ecclesiastical State is the body of the clergy.
ECCLESIAS'TIC, noun A person in orders, or consecrated to the service of the church and the ministry of religion.