Ecclesiastical used in a sentence

Ecclesiastical in a sentence as an adjective

These pieces are secular, unlike his other ecclesiastical music.

We of course didn't like the policies of the British Parliament, both temporal and ecclesiastical.

I wonder how many people have knowledge in medieval ecclesiastical accounting...

"a plodding group, narrowly vocational in outlook, lower-class youths grimly intent on ecclesiastical preferment as the means to advancement.

They may become entirely ignorant of the ecclesiastical modes, which they have already ceased to distinguish and the limits of which they abuse in the prolixity of their notes.

But it didn't originate as one, and didn't originally involve a sentence reduction but transfer to ecclesiastical court from secular court.

If a hoodie is good enough for the cloistered ecclesiastical devotee of yesteryear, it's good enough for the cloistered epistemological devotee of today.

The appropriate standard for word usage is "the same republican principles as American civil and ecclesiastical constitutions" [Noah Webster], that is, popular usage.

Language follows "the same republican principles as American civil and ecclesiastical constitutions".

The appropriate standard for the American language, argued Webster, was "the same republican principles as American civil and ecclesiastical constitutions".

The original model of university student was the one Westfall described in his excellent biography of Newton: "a plodding group, narrowly vocational in outlook, lower-class youths grimly intent on ecclesiastical preferment as the means to advancement.

"a plodding group, narrowly vocational in outlook, lower-class youths grimly intent on ecclesiastical preferment as the means to advancement"The irony is that today's anti-university movement is largely composed of people of this personality; just replace "ecclesiastical" with "technological", and you've captured the essence of the popular arguments for dropping out.