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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Ecclesiastic, a. Also: -yc, -ik, -ick, -ique. [ME. ecclesyastyke (1483), L. ecclēsiasticus.] Belonging or pertaining to the church.1389 Wemyss Chart. 24.
Gyf … euyr thai be hard before ony iuge, syculare or ecclesiastyc 1531 Bell. Boece II. 164.
Preistis, and all ecclesiastik personis, sal be haldin in reverence 1533 Boece xiii. viii. 515 b.
Petir callit to surname Comestor quhilk wrate the ecclesiastic historie 1551 Acts II. 485/1.
Ane barrone or beneficit man constitute in dignite ecclesiastick c1550 Rolland C. Venus ii. 928.
Thair ornament it was ecclesiastik 1596 Dalr. II. 466/12.
Of this proceidit and cam the lyfe of monie ecclesiastik persounis
