Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

Ecclesiastically and doctrinally they stood in the open, while Romanist and Protestant, Anglican and Puritan, Calvinist and Arminian waged bitter war, filling the air with angry maledictions.

From The Builders A Story and Study of Masonry by Newton, Joseph Fort

Ecclesiastically he was annexed, but refused to be incorporated, never seeing the advantage of walking in the middle path which the State Church of England had traced between the extremes of Popery and Dissent.

From Lectures and Essays by Smith, Goldwin

Ecclesiastically, too, though it has received various set-backs, it is manifestly gaining power.

From The Roman Empire in the Light of Prophecy The Rise, Progress, and End of the Fourth World-empire by Vine, W. E.

Ecclesiastically they were removed from the jurisdiction of the Popes to that of the Patriarchs of Constantinople.

From A Short History of Italy (476-1900) by Sedgwick, Henry Dwight

Ecclesiastically, also, the whole realm was divided into dioceses, whose bishops were appointed by consent of the king.

From Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time or, The Jarls and The Freskyns by Gray, James