A commonwealth; a community, town; also, the people of such a body politic; the commune of the land. …

Eccl. Complin. …

Eccl. (a) The last of the seven daily services or 'hours' (following even-song vespers) observed by monastics and priests of the Roman Church; complin; houre of complin; don complin, saien complin,……

(a) To admit (a fault, damaging fact, transgression); -- with obj., refl., or ben confessed (of sth.); (b) to admit (a fact, truth); confessen the soth; (c) to reveal (sth.). …

Eccl. Christ, have mercy on us; -- part of the Kyrie eleison in the liturgy. …

Eccl. Suspension or removal from an office or position. …

Usually law (a) Disposition or settlement of a suit or dispute; decision, verdict; doom, undoing; (b) power to adjudicate, jurisdiction. …

Eccl. A bishop's diocese. …

Eccl. The reverence which may be paid to angels and saints. …

Eccl. A book containing the epistles read in the Mass. …

Eccl. A maniple. …

Eccl. The maniple, one of the Eucharistic vestments. …

Eccl. Investiture with the authority of an abbot. …

Eccl. (a) The investiture of a churchman with his office or benefice; (b) the right to grant or confer such investiture. …

Eccl. Kyrie eleison. …

(a) Eccl. A piscina; ?also, a holy water stoup; ?also, a washbasin; (b) the great brass or bronze laver in the temple of Jerusalem; the Brazen or Molten Sea (made by Solomon for his temple); (c) a……

Eccl. The elevation of the consecrated Host and chalice in the Mass; ?also, the lesser elevation at the end of the Canon of the Mass; the levacioun time, the time of the elevation, the elevation; the……

Eccl. To put (sb.) to death as a martyr, make a martyr of (sb.); torture and execute (sb.) for professing the Christian faith. …

(a) Eccl. A letter of admonition or warning; (b) as adj.: conveying a warning, admonitory. …

(a) Eccl. A division of the office of matins, consisting of selected Psalms (often three) and a number of readings from Scripture; a nocturn; (b) one of the groups of Psalms used in the nocturns. …