All 13 Uses of
ecclesiastical
in
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- Then arrived, two by two, with a gravity which made a contrast in the midst of the frisky ecclesiastical escort of Charles de Bourbon, the eight and forty ambassadors of Maximilian of Austria, having at their head the reverend Father in God, Jehan, Abbot of Saint-Bertin, Chancellor of the Golden Fleece, and Jacques de Goy, Sieur Dauby, Grand Bailiff of Ghent.†
Chpt 1.1.3ecclesiastical = associated with a church
- Let the reader imagine the effect in the midst of a theatrical piece, of the yelping of an usher, flinging in between two rhymes, and often in the middle of a line, parentheses like the following,— "Master Jacques Charmolue, procurator to the king in the Ecclesiastical Courts!"†
Chpt 1.1.4
- "Djali," resumed the young girl, emboldened by her growing success, "how preaches Master Jacques Charmolue, procurator to the king in the ecclesiastical court?"†
Chpt 1.2.3 *
- Claude Frollo had been destined from infancy, by his parents, to the ecclesiastical profession.†
Chpt 1.4.2
- you are procurator to the king in the Ecclesiastical Courts: this parchment is abominable.†
Chpt 2.7.5
- "Poor fly!" said the king's procurator in the ecclesiastical court; and he raised his hand to save it.†
Chpt 2.7.5
- But one must practise a bit of hermetic science when one is only procurator of the king in the ecclesiastical court, at thirty crowns tournois a year.†
Chpt 2.7.5
- Master Jacques Charmolue, procurator of the king in the Ecclesiastical Court, with the gentlemen of the officialty.†
Chpt 2.8.1
- A bailiff banded the dead leaf to the crocodile, who made a doleful shake of the head, and passed it on to the president, who gave it to the procurator of the king in the ecclesiastical court, and thus it made the circuit of the hail.†
Chpt 2.8.1
- "Mademoiselle," resumed the caressing voice of the procucrator of the Ecclesiastical court, "for the third time, do you persist in denying the deeds of which you are accused?"†
Chpt 2.8.2
- When the prisoner had been "unbooted," the procurator of the ecclesiastical court examined her foot, which was still swollen with pain.†
Chpt 2.8.2
- "Monsieur, procurator of the king in the ecclesiastical courts," said the president, "the chamber is ready to hear you in your charge."†
Chpt 2.8.3
- So saying, he pointed to the little goat, who, on seeing Charmolue gesticulating, had, in point of fact, thought it appropriate to do the same, and had seated himself on his haunches, reproducing to the best of his ability, with his forepaws and his bearded head the pathetic pantomine of the king's procurator in the ecclesiastical court.†
Chpt 2.8.3
Definition:
of or associated with a church -- especially a Christian Church