Ecclesiastical

The fishermen in that lake see distinctly under the water, in calm weather, ecclesiastical towers, which, according to the custom of the country, are slender and lofty, and moreover round; and they frequently point them out to strangers travelling through these parts, who wonder what could have caused such a catastrophe.

He said, Look at the world, there was good and evil in that; look at the ecclesiastical law, there was good and evil in THAT.

Any restoration will have to consider the artistic and ecclesiastical heritage of Notre Dame.

ecclesiastical architecture

Sodomy had always been an ecclesiastical offense. The Statute of 1533 (25 Henry VIII, c. 6) made it a felony; and Pollock and Maitland consider that this "affords an almost sufficient proof that the temporal courts had not punished it, and that no one had been put to death for it, for a very long time past."