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conciliar

UK/kənˈsɪlɪə/

conciliar adjective: of or pertaining to a council, especially an ecclesiastical council.

Adjective

conciliar (comparative more conciliar, superlative most conciliar)

  1. (formal, uncommon) Of or pertaining to a council, especially an ecclesiastical council.
    • The next few years saw increasing tension between those wishing to develop this conciliar mechanism and successive popes seeking to build on the papacy's newly restored integrity.2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years, New York: Penguin Books, published 2011, →ISBN, page 560
    • This was the era which witnessed the beginnings of the conciliar movement, which sought to subordinate the papacy to the decisions of Church Councils.2011, Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms: The History of Half-Forgotten Europe, London: Allen Lane, →ISBN, page 347
    Synonyms:
    councillary

Synonyms of conciliar

  • councillary

Forms of conciliar

comparativemore conciliar
superlativemost conciliar

Origin of conciliar

Borrowed from Latin conciliāris.

Words formed from conciliar

Questions about conciliar

What does conciliar mean?
Conciliar means of or pertaining to a council, especially an ecclesiastical council.
What part of speech is conciliar?
Conciliar is an adjective.
How do you pronounce conciliar?
Conciliar is pronounced /kənˈsɪlɪə/ (UK).

Words near conciliar in the dictionary

  1. conciliable
  2. conciliables
  3. conciliabule
  4. conciliabules
  5. conciliant
  6. conciliar
  7. conciliarism
  8. conciliarist
  9. conciliarists
  10. conciliarity
  11. conciliarly

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