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Definition of Encyclics
1. encyclic [n] - See also: encyclic
Lexicographical Neighbors of Encyclics
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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