All 3 Uses of
ecclesiastical
in
The House of the Spirits
- Carried away by vocational zeal, the priest had all he could do to avoid openly disobeying the instructions of his ecclesiastic superiors, who, shaken by the winds of modernism, were opposed to hair shirts and flagellation.†
Chpt 1 *ecclesiastic = associated with a church
- I limped out to the bathroom, spruced myself up, and put on the plush ecclesiastic dressing gown I had bought to seduce her in, but she never seemed to notice.†
Chpt 6
- Unable to sleep, I shuffled up and down the halls all night in my slippers that were too big for me, wrapped in the old ecclesiastical bathrobe I had kept for sentimental reasons, and railing against my fate like an old man at the end of his days.†
Chpt 10
Definition:
of or associated with a church -- especially a Christian Church