All 11 Uses
ecclesiastical
in
Madame Bovary
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- "For," said the ecclesiastic in a paternal tone, "you rather neglected your duties; you were rarely seen at divine worship.†
Chpt 2.11ecclesiastic = associated with a church
- But during his demonstration the cider often spurted right into their faces, and then the ecclesiastic, with a thick laugh, never missed this joke— "Its goodness strikes the eye!"†
Chpt 2.14
- The ecclesiastic contented himself with uttering a groan, and the chemist went on— "It's like it is in the Bible; there there are, you know, more than one piquant detail, matters really libidinous!"†
Chpt 2.14
- "Sir!" replied the ecclesiastic, with such angry eyes that the druggist was intimidated by them.†
Chpt 2.14 *
- He came towards Leon, and, with that smile of wheedling benignity assumed by ecclesiastics when they question children— "The gentleman, no doubt, does not belong to these parts?†
Chpt 3.1
- The sight of an ecclesiastic was personally disagreeable to him, for the cassock made him think of the shroud, and he detested the one from some fear of the other.†
Chpt 3.8ecclesiastic = associated with a church
- "The spirit of rebellion is still upon you," sighed the ecclesiastic.†
Chpt 3.9
- "Yet," Homais went on, "one of two things; either she died in a state of grace (as the Church has it), and then she has no need of our prayers; or else she departed impertinent (that is, I believe, the ecclesiastical expression), and then—" Bournisien interrupted him, replying testily that it was none the less necessary to pray.†
Chpt 3.9
- "What!" cried the ecclesiastic, "prayer!†
Chpt 3.9
- "But, good heaven!" cried the ecclesiastic, "how do you expect an individual who is married to keep the secrets of the confessional, for example?"†
Chpt 3.9
- The ecclesiastic passed the holy water sprinkler to his neighbour.†
Chpt 3.10
Definitions:
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(1)
(ecclesiastical) of or associated with a church -- especially a Christian Church
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)