conciliar
adjUK /kənˈsɪlɪə/
Etymology Borrowed from Latin conciliāris.
- The next few years saw increasing tension between those wishing to develop this conciliar mechanism and successive popes seeking to build on the papacy's newly restored integrity.2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years, New York: Penguin Books, published 2011, →ISBN, page 560:
- This was the era which witnessed the beginnings of the conciliar movement, which sought to subordinate the papacy to the decisions of Church Councils.2011, Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms: The History of Half-Forgotten Europe, London: Allen Lane, →ISBN, page 347:
- Derived terms
- conciliarism, conciliarist, conciliarity, conciliarly, conciliar republic, postconciliar, preconciliar