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ecclesia en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ɪˈkli.zi.ə/

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin ecclēsia, from Ancient Greek ἐκκλησία (ekklēsía). Doublet of Eccles.

Meanings

1. (historical) The public legislative assembly of the Athenians.
2. A church, either as a body or as a building.
   • The 1880s were no more peaceful for the ecclesias than had been the 1870s. Generally membership was increasing; so much so in London that two new ecclesias were formed, leaving about 200 in the older ecclesia at Islington. 1961, Bryan R[onald] Wilson, “The History of Christadelphianism”, in Sects and Society: A Sociological Study of Three Religious Groups in Britain (Heinemann Books on Sociology), London: William Heinemann Ltd, →OCLC, part III (The Christadelphians), page 247:
3. The congregation, the group of believers, symbolic body or building.

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Relateds

ecclesiast · ecclesiologically · ecclesio- · ecclesiologist · ecclesiastical · ecclesial · Ecclesiastes · ecclesiastic · ecclesiastically · ecclesiology · Sola Ecclesia · ecclesiologic · sola ecclesia · ecclesiological