Thomas chose a religious vocation and enrolled in the seminary to become an ecclesiastic. From LearnThat.org.
ecclesiastic history. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The titled ecclesiastic and the ambitious statesman should have their warning on this point. From Wordnik.com. [The Conflict with Slavery, Part 1, from Volume VII, The Works of Whittier: the Conflict with Slavery, Politics and Reform, the Inner Life and Criticism] Reference
The ecclesiastic was to be a wise and prudent person, and to be informed how little confidence Montigny inspired in the article of faith. From Wordnik.com. [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference
But the ecclesiastic was a man of courage. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Galley Impressions and Tales] Reference
This ecclesiastic was the last Abbot of Tewkesbury. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Abbey Church of Tewkesbury with some Account of the Priory Church of Deerhurst Gloucestershire] Reference
As an ecclesiastic, he should not have compelled him to. From Wordnik.com. [Coronation Anecdotes] Reference
This ecclesiastic employed in his service a subordinate. From Wordnik.com. [The Superstitions of Witchcraft] Reference
Donald said at last, for he was by nature an ecclesiastic. From Wordnik.com. [St. Cuthbert's] Reference
The original ecclesiastic seal bore the seated figure of King Athelstan. From Wordnik.com. [Lynton and Lynmouth A Pageant of Cliff & Moorland] Reference
The reply of the distinguished ecclesiastic, dated November 4, 1674, was. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Venerable Sister Margaret Bourgeois] Reference
The ecclesiastic is well aware that science is his natural and implacable enemy. From Wordnik.com. [The Necessity of Atheism] Reference
That painted window's said to be the oldest of any, not ecclesiastic, in Europe. From Wordnik.com. [Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden] Reference
He is the great prototype of the domineering and intolerant ecclesiastic all the world over. From Wordnik.com. [King of the Jews A story of Christ's last days on Earth] Reference
"Almost ecclesiastic, I'll say," chuckled Nell, when the old serving man was out of the room. From Wordnik.com. [The Campfire Girls of Roselawn Or, a Strange Message from the Air] Reference
The ecclesiastic concerns himself not with truth or knowledge; it is creed which is his shrine. From Wordnik.com. [The Necessity of Atheism] Reference
First at St. Rose and later at St. Aloysius, he was a passionate -- even radical -- ecclesiastic. From Wordnik.com. [Confessions Of A Fallen Priest] Reference
Her music is not especially ecclesiastic in vein, but includes many notable secular compositions. From Wordnik.com. [Woman's Work in Music] Reference
The ARMIL, or STOLE, is the only ecclesiastic symbol now retained in the investiture of our kings. From Wordnik.com. [Coronation Anecdotes] Reference
Nevertheless, the solemn-featured young man is not an ecclesiastic, neither is he a Protestant minister. From Wordnik.com. [The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886] Reference
Instead the ecclesiastic burdened humanity with a belief that madness was largely possession by the Devil. From Wordnik.com. [The Necessity of Atheism] Reference
Mr. Attorney-General ultimately waited upon that ecclesiastic to explain his own private sentiments to him. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1] Reference
She saw in a dream, a grave, venerable-looking man, dressed like an ecclesiastic, standing silently before her. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Venerable Sister Margaret Bourgeois] Reference
Warped and poured into the ecclesiastic mould of fear, the mind of the child becomes set and fixed with the years. From Wordnik.com. [The Necessity of Atheism] Reference
Why does the ecclesiastic not leave off his advances until the child reaches a mature age, an age when he can reason?. From Wordnik.com. [The Necessity of Atheism] Reference
The superintendent is evidently not an ordinary schoolmaster; you would suppose that he is an ecclesiastic of some kind. From Wordnik.com. [The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886] Reference
Two leagues further on we had another rich scene; an ecclesiastic stopped the carriage, and commenced a pompous harangue addressed to M. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851] Reference
The ecclesiastic has from earliest times taken the standpoint that the masses of people are of crude susceptibility and clumsy intelligence. From Wordnik.com. [The Necessity of Atheism] Reference
We have, for example, a high ecclesiastic in one of the sacerdotal communions, and by his side there is some order of Nonconformist minister. From Wordnik.com. [Men in the Making] Reference
BALMÈS, JAIME LUCIANO (1810-1848), Spanish ecclesiastic, eminent as a political writer and a philosopher, was born at Vich in Catalonia, on the. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
The oft-repeated assertion that, during the Middle Ages, ecclesiastic influence was the saving grace is well refuted by Dr. William J. Robinson. From Wordnik.com. [The Necessity of Atheism] Reference
This young ecclesiastic, when the archbishop was at the same seminary, used to rise every night, and write out either sermons or pieces of music. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847] Reference
The position of the Mount caused it to become not only ecclesiastic but a secular stronghold, and it is in this connection that it chiefly claims historic notice. From Wordnik.com. [The Cornwall Coast] Reference
If he heard that some ecclesiastic was at the hotel -- and he heard everything -- he would at once go for him, and place his own neat, comfortable house at his disposal. From Wordnik.com. [Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 2, February 1886] Reference
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