Ecclesiasticus

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Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A book of the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox canon of the Old Testament, considered apocryphal by Protestants.

Etymology

From Middle English Ecclesiasticus, from Late Latin Ecclēsiasticus, probably short for liber ecclēsiasticus (“church book”), from its use in church readings. Doublet of ecclesiastic.

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