Both of these men brought an atmosphere of grim ecclesiasticism into the house.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jennie Gerhardt] Reference

Arnold smiled back at her, and she saw recognition leap through the armour-plate of his ecclesiasticism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hilda A Story of Calcutta] Reference

But he preached neither the popular nationalism, nor the popular ecclesiasticism, nor the popular ethics.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference

Not anthropomorphic theology so much as ecclesiasticism is the major burden on their thinking about deity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christianity and Progress] Reference

Naturally this ecclesiasticism which dominated the whole of life, was bound to assert itself in state organisation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christianity and Islam] Reference

The book is rigidly suppressed by the authorities of most countries, and by all branches of ornaised ecclesiasticism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Frequently Asked Questions about the Work on the Nrcromonicon Version 1.2 by Kendrick Kerwin Chua] Reference

Latin, still a living language in the clerical world, was perpetuated, instead of becoming an obsolete ecclesiasticism.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866] Reference

They were face to face with hungry souls; with men who knew little of theology and ecclesiasticism, but much of actual life.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Transformation of Job A Tale of the High Sierras] Reference

Our religious influences have created a race of men mentally docile and obedient to the dictates of tyrannical ecclesiasticism.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Necessity of Atheism] Reference

Of Voltaire's anti-clericism little need be said, except to recall our debt to his victory over ecclesiasticism and superstition.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Necessity of Atheism] Reference

Tennyson has sung of an "honest doubt" wherein there "lives more faith" than "in half the creeds" and councils of ecclesiasticism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles] Reference

The wheeled Cherubim is well developed in the design of this famous cope, and is a pleasing decorative bit of archaic ecclesiasticism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance] Reference

Neither presbyterianism, or prelacy, nor any other form of ecclesiasticism, makes the slightest effort to lift its head above its fellow.    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II] Reference

However it may seem to its inhabitants, to the stranger everything in Hingham is tinctured by the remembrance of the stern old ecclesiasticism.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Coast Road From Boston to Plymouth] Reference

Governor Law had grown up among the traditions of that narrow ecclesiasticism which had always marked the territory of the old New Haven Colony.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Development of Religious Liberty in Connecticut] Reference

'Never was there a time,' says a modern writer, 'when plain people were less concerned with the metaphysics or the ecclesiasticism of Christianity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics] Reference

Psychically they were affected as by ecclesiasticism.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story] Reference

Neither should theology be confounded with ecclesiasticism.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Theology] Reference

Yet Christianity too, in spite of ecclesiasticism, teems with ideas.    From Wordnik.com.  [At Large] Reference

It is seen in politics, in philanthropy, in ecclesiasticism, and in education.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beacon Lights of History] Reference

Few have yet begun to comprehend the influence that ecclesiasticism has had upon law.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III (of III)] Reference

One may be perfectly saturated with ecclesiasticism, and still continue a small-natured man.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Knight of the Nineteenth Century] Reference

Neither cold morality, nor godless philosophy, nor wild dissipation, nor narrow ecclesiasticism prompted Paul's answer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts] Reference

Nor is this conviction to be classed as idealism, or ecclesiasticism, or mysticism, or anything else to which we can put a tag.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Conquest of Fear] Reference

The entire subordination of the common law to ecclesiasticism, dates in England to the reign of Stephen, who ascended the throne in 1135.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I] Reference

This seems to be as great an offence to ecclesiasticism in this hour and this land of boasted freedom, as it was to Paul in Judea nineteen centuries ago.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Woman's Bible] Reference

The tendency to exalt the letter of what is spoken or written, at the expense of the spirit, is as much of the essence of ecclesiasticism as of legalism.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Is and What Might Be A Study of Education in General and Elementary Education in Particular] Reference

But she soon saw the danger of a general conflagration and, applying Voltaire's epithet for ecclesiasticism to the republic, cried all abroad: Crush the Infamous!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.)] Reference

The strongest surface currents of the age are against it; alike that of unregulated, hurrying, indiscriminate enterprize, and that of an exaggerated ecclesiasticism.    From Wordnik.com.  [To My Younger Brethren Chapters on Pastoral Life and Work] Reference

It was a curious but characteristic whim which consequently suggested to the enemies of ecclesiasticism the revival of Roman forms dating from the heathen commonwealth.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.)] Reference

In one or two of them Stanley writes with his genuine sincerity and earnestness on the state of his mind in regard to the new spirit of ecclesiasticism that had arisen in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Studies in Literature and History] Reference