ecclesia
noun/ɪˈkli.zi.ə/
Etymology Learned borrowing from Latin ecclēsia, from Ancient Greek ἐκκλησία (ekklēsía). Doublet of Eccles.
1
Historical The public legislative assembly of the Athenians.
2
Ecclesiastical, Lifestyle, Religion A church, either as a body or as a building.
- The 1880s were no more peaceful for the ecclesias than had been the 1870s. Generally membership was increasing; so much so in London that two new ecclesias were formed, leaving about 200 in the older ecclesia at Islington.1961, Bryan R[onald] Wilson, “The History of Christadelphianism”, in Sects and Society: A Sociological Study of Three Religious Groups in Britain (Heinemann Books on Sociology), London: William Heinemann Ltd, →OCLC, part III (The Christadelphians), page 247:
- Related terms
- ecclesial, ecclesiast, Ecclesiastes, ecclesiastic, ecclesiastical, ecclesiastically, ecclesio-, ecclesiologic, ecclesiological, ecclesiologically, ecclesiologist, ecclesiology, sola ecclesia, Sola Ecclesia