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Definition of Ecumenical

1. Adjective. Concerned with promoting unity among churches or religions. "The ecumenical movement"

2. Adjective. Of worldwide scope or applicability. "Universal experience"

Definition of Ecumenical

1. Adjective. (ecclesiastical) Pertaining to the universal Church, representing the entire Christian world; interdenominational; sometimes by extension, interreligious. (defdate from 16th c.) ¹

2. Adjective. General, universal, worldwide. (defdate from 17th c.) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Ecumenical

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ecumenical

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ecuelles eculizumab ecumene ecumenic ecumenical (current term) ecumenical movement ecumenicalism ecumenicalisms ecumenically ecumenicism

ecumenicisms ecumenicist ecumenicists ecumenicities ecumenicity ecumenics ecumenism ecumenisms ecumenist

Literary usage of Ecumenical

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

1. Literary Remains of the Late Emanuel Deutsch: With a Brief Memoir by Emanuel Deutsch (1874)
"Sixth of the Lateran or first of the Vatican, it can only be called (ecumenical at this time of the day by a stretch of courtesy. ..."

2. A Source Book for Ancient Church History: From the Apostolic Age to the by Joseph Cullen Ayer (1913)
"The conciliar system was carried to its logical completion in the ecumenical council representing the entire Church and standing at the head of a system ..."

3. The Creeds of Christendom: With a History and Critical Notes by Philip Schaff (1919)
"THE (ecumenical CREEDS. Literature on the three (ecumenical Creeds. ... GENERAL CHARACTER OF THE (ecumenical CREEDS. ..."

4. The Future Life: According to the Authority of Divine Revelation, the by Joseph Casimir Sasia (1918)
"Twenty ecumenical Councils have been celebrated in Christendom from the first held in the ... For a Council to be ecumenical, and revered as legitimate, ..."

5. A Select Library of Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church by Philip Schaff, Henry Wace (1900)
"From the fact that the canons of the Council in Trullo are included in this volume of the Decrees and Canons of the Seven ecumenical Councils it must not ..."

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