œcumenic
See also: oecumenic
English edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /iːkjuːˈmɛnɪk/, /ɛkjuːˈmɛnɪk/[1]
Adjective edit
œcumenic (not comparable)
- Archaic form of ecumenic.[1]
- 1835, Isaac Taylor, chapter VI, in Spiritual despotism, 2nd edition, Holdsworth and Ball, page 263:
- […] that great economy of provincial government and of œcumenic relationship […]
- 1905, Emil Reich, Select Documents Illustrating Mediaeval and Modern History, page 130:
- The first œcumenic council accordingly met at Nicæa, the Emperor’s summer dwelling-place in Bithynia.
- 1992, Jules Michelet, G. H. Smith, History of France from the earliest period to the present time, D. Appleton & Co, page 106:
- If ever general council was œcumenic, it was this of Constance.
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Translations edit
ecumenical — see ecumenical
References edit
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 “ecumenic, œcumenic, a.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary, second edition (1989)