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   Ecclesiastic , a. [L. ecclesiasticus, Gr. , fr.  an assembly of citizens called out by the crier; also, the church, fr.  called out, fr.  to call out; ἐκ out +  to call. See Ex-, and Hale, v. t., Haul.] Of or pertaining to the church. See Ecclesiastical. “Ecclesiastic government.”
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   Ecclesiastic, n. A person in holy orders, or consecrated to the service of the church and the ministry of religion; a clergyman; a priest.
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   From a humble ecclesiastic, he was subsequently preferred to the highest dignities of the church.
   Prescott.
   
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