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Definition of Ecclesiastical attire
1. Noun. Attire that is appropriate to wear in a church.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ecclesiastical Attire
Literary usage of Ecclesiastical attire
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A View of Congregationalism: Its Principles & Doctrines; the Testimony of by George Punchard (1856)
"But Grindal, bishop of London, though satisfied with his country's liturgy, was
not equally so with her ecclesiastical attire. James Pilkington, bishop of ..."
2. History of Congregationalism from about A.D. 250 to the Present Time in by George Punchard (1865)
"''But Grindal, bishop of London, though satisfied with his country's liturgy,
was not equally so with her ecclesiastical attire. James Pilkington, bishop of ..."
3. A Glossary of Liturgical and Ecclesiastical Terms by Frederick George Lee (1877)
"It is the offspring of a worldly ornament in secular dress, and not of ecclesiastical
attire; being originally nothing else than the shirt-collar turned ..."
4. The Jesuits, 1534-1921: A History of the Society of Jesus from Its by Thomas Joseph Campbell (1921)
"... were at that time no secular priests; the missionaries were all Jesuits, and
it would have been difficult to get any other ecclesiastical attire. ..."
5. The Works of Mr. Richard Hooker: In Eight Books : Of the Laws of by Richard Hooker, Izaak Walton (1821)
"... were before so forcible laws against our ecclesiastical attire, as neither
church nor commonwealth could possibly make void; which now one, ..."
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