Crossword-Solution: ECUMENICAL
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Ecumenical | a. | General; universal; in ecclesiastical usage, that which concerns the whole church; as, an ecumenical council. |
We have 16 clues for the answer “ECUMENICAL”
| Clue | Answers |
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| General; universal | 1 answer |
| Involving many Christian denominations | 1 answer |
| Nonsectarian | 1 answer |
| Promoting unity | 1 answer |
| Universal: Eccl. | 1 answer |
| Promoting unity among branches of Christianity | 1 answer |
| worldwide | 29 answers |
| CATHOLIC ___ | 30 answers |
| COSMIC ___ | 34 answers |
| ___-inclusive | 41 answers |
| Global | 44 answers |
| Sweeping | 48 answers |
| COMPREHENSIVE ___ | 53 answers |
| Ubiqui-tous | 65 answers |
| Universal | 69 answers |
| General | 85 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATREE
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Sentences with ECUMENICAL (5)
Then commenced a deliberation, which finished up with insults and a confusion worthy of an ecumenical council of holy fathers.
And, speaking of moral things, I am half determined to petition the Ecumenical Council to issue a bull of excommunication against “pusley.” Of all the forms which “error” has taken in this world, I think that is about the worst.
The inscription is of the time of Augustus, and the Emperor is designated as "saviour of the community of mankind." There we have the notion of the human race apprehended as a whole, the ecumenical idea, imposing upon Rome the task described by Virgil as regere imperio populos, and more humanely by Pliny as the creation of a single fatherland for all the peoples of the world.
Wycliffe and Chaucer, with perhaps Roger Bacon, are the only English names of first importance in the realms of medieval thought and literature, unless we put Bede (673- 735) in the Middle Ages; for insular genius does not seem to have flourished under ecumenical inspiration; and even Wycliffe and Chaucer may be claimed as products of the national rather than of the catholic spirit.
The holy Patriarch of the Friars Minor arrived at Rome when everything was preparing for the opening of the Twelfth Ecumenical Council, the 4th of Lateran, one of the most numerous ever held in the Church.
Quotes with ECUMENICAL (3)
Considering things in the ecumenical measure, we are the microbes of the Universe.
Whenever one comes to the the table for interreligous dialogue, there is what I would call an _ecumenical taboo_ that one has to comply with. The ecumenical taboo_ does not exist in a written document, but people tend to practice it around the dialogue table. One should not raise, for instance, such questions as gender justice, sexual orientation issues, religious constructions of the other, multiple forms of violence in a religious community, or religious cooperation with ne…
It’s time that Christianity should be redefined by the world based upon the original teachings of Jesus, instead of the Old and New Testaments which have been interpreted, reinterpreted and distorted by all the Ecumenical Councils, i.e. the Church Councils.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT, Universal.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1967–2004).