ecclesiasticalの意味・使い方・発音

ecclesiastical

英 [ɪ,kliːzɪ'æstɪk(ə)l] 美 [ɪ,klizɪ'æstɪkl]

ecclesiastical: ecclesiastical: [15] In classical Greek, an ekklēsíā was an ‘assembly’ (the word was derived from ekkalein, a compound verb formed from the prefix ek- ‘out’ and kallein ‘call’). With the introduction of Christianity, it was adopted as the term for ‘church’, and an ekklēsiastés, originally ‘someone who addressed an assembly’, became a ‘preacher’ or ‘priest’. The derived adjective, ekklēsiastikos, passed into English via either French or Latin.
ecclesiastical (adj.): early 15c., from ecclesiastic + -al (1). Related: Ecclesiastically.

1. My ambition was to travel upwards in the ecclesiastical hierarchy.: 私の雄心は教会の中を一歩一歩上に行くことです。

2.There was a range of opinion within the ecclesiastical hierarchy on the issue.: この問題はキリスト教会の指導層に多くの意見が存在する。

3.His first instincts led him to choose an ecclesiastical career.

彼は早くから宣教師の職業に熱中していた。

4.His wanderings were partly propted by civil and ecclesiastical disturbances.: 彼の生活は漂流しているが、一部は国内と教会の混乱のためだ。