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Ecclesiastical States

Ecclesiastical States is the plural of Ecclesiastical State.

Meaning of Ecclesiastical State

Proper noun

the Ecclesiastical State (plural Ecclesiastical States)

  1. (archaic, historical) The Papal States.
    • And although in March, Captaine George Fransperg was taken with a fit of an Apoplexie, which caused his death, yet because the army was entred into the Ecclesiasticall State, and still marched forward, the Pope in the end of the moneth, resolued to come to an accord […]1629 [1619], Paolo Sarpi, translated by Nathaniel Brent, The Historie of the Councel of Trent […], London: Bonham Norton and John Bill, →OCLC, book 1, paragraph 97, page 43

Questions about Ecclesiastical States

What is Ecclesiastical States the plural of?
Ecclesiastical States is the plural of Ecclesiastical State.

Words near Ecclesiastical States in the dictionary

  1. ecclesiastical
  2. Ecclesiastical Latin
  3. ecclesiastical law
  4. ecclesiastical laws
  5. Ecclesiastical State
  6. Ecclesiastical States
  7. ecclesiasticall
  8. ecclesiastically
  9. ecclesiasticism
  10. ecclesiasticisms
  11. ecclesiasticize

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