ecclesiastic

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Moore recounted how an agent codenamed Ecclesiastic, who penetrated German intelligence for MI6 in 1944, was looked after by the service until her death, aged 100.

From Washington Times • Jul. 19, 2023

This exhibition has three acts: Secular, Ecclesiastic and, for lack of a better word, Miraculous.

From New York Times • Dec. 27, 2018

Another record was the Mingus Oh Yeah album, particularly Ecclesiastic, which I drew an enormous amount of pleasure from.

From The Guardian • Jun. 12, 2012

Her appearance in the Ecclesiastic States, on the other hand, is announced in Roman capitals; and her triumphal entry into St Petersburg received with regiments of notes of admiration!!!

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844 by Various

Instead of studying tomes scholastic, Ecclesiastic, or monastic, Off I fly, careering far In chase of Pollys, prettier far Than any of their namesakes are,— The Polymaths and Polyhistors, Polyglots and all their sisters.

From The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by Rossetti, William Michael