Definition of Encyclics

1. Noun. (plural of encyclic) ¹

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Definition of Encyclics

1. encyclic [n] - See also: encyclic

Lexicographical Neighbors of Encyclics

encumbrances
encumbrous
encur
encurtain
encurtained
encurtaining
encurtains
encyclic
encyclical
encyclical letter
encyclicals
encyclics (current term)
encyclopaedia
encyclopaediac
encyclopaediacal
encyclopaediae
encyclopaedial
encyclopaedian
encyclopaedias
encyclopaedic
encyclopaedical
encyclopaedicity
encyclopaedism
encyclopaedist
encyclopaedists
encyclopedia

Literary usage of Encyclics

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Dictionary of Christian Antiquities: Being a Continuation of the by Samuel Cheetham (1880)
"451), addressed to all the bishops of the church. The same writer (c. 4) speaks of divine and apostolic encyclics ..."

2. The English Review (1847)
"... is the appointment of a special congregation of cardinals for the superintendence of the monastic orders; and the issue of two encyclics, one addressed ..."

3. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon, William Smith (1862)
"... original monuments of the schism, of the charges of the Greeks against the Latins, are deposited in the epistles of Photius (Epist. encyclics, ii. p. ..."

4. The American Historical Review by American historical association (1898)
"... liberal than Pius IX., but accepts all the doctrines laid down in the famous syllabus, basing his assertion on citations from the former's encyclics. ..."

5. Cyclopaedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature by John McClintock, James Strong (1883)
"See LITER/E encyclics. (AJS) Encyclopedia of Theology, a branch of theological .science of comparatively recent origin. Its aims arc to furnish (1) a sketch ..."

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