Crossword clues for ecclesia
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ecclesia \Ec*cle"si*a\, n.; pl. Ecclesi[ae]. [L., fr. Gr. ?.]
(Gr. Antiq.) The public legislative assembly of the Athenians.
(Eccl.) A church, either as a body or as a building.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context historical English) The public legislative assembly of the Athenians. 2 (context ecclesiastical English) A church, either as a body or as a building. 3 (context Biblical English) The congregation, the group of believers, symbolic body or building.
Wikipedia
Ecclesia ( Greek: ἐκκλησία ekklēsia) may refer to:
The ecclesia or ekklesia was the principal assembly of the democracy of ancient Athens during its " Golden Age" (480–404 BCE). It was the popular assembly, open to all male citizens with 2 years of military service. In 594 BC, Solon allowed all Athenian citizens to participate, regardless of class, even the thetes. The assembly was responsible for declaring war, military strategy and electing the strategoi and other officials. It was responsible for nominating and electing magistrates, thus indirectly electing the members of the Areopagus. It had the final say on legislation and the right to call magistrates to account after their year of office. In the 5th century BC its members numbered about 43,000 people. It would have been difficult, however, for non-wealthy people outside of the urban center of Athens to attend until payments for attendance were introduced in the late 5th century. It originally met once every month, but later it met three or four times per month. The agenda for the ekklesia was established by the Boule, the popular council. Votes were taken by a show of hands,counting of stones and voting using broken pottery.
A quorum of 6,000 was required sometimes to do business. The ecclesia elected by lot annually the Boule or council. Some of their power under Solon was delegated to the Court by Pericles in his reforms.
In ancient Greece an ekklesiasterion was a building specifically built for the purpose of holding the meetings of the ecclesia. Like many other cities Athens did not have an ekklesiasterion. Instead, the regular meetings of the assembly were held on the Pnyx and two annual meetings took place in the Theater of Dionysus. Around 300 BC all the meetings of the ekklesia were moved to the theater. The meetings of the assembly could attract large audiences: 6,000 citizens might have attended in Athens during the fifth century BC.
A police force of 300 Scythian slaves carried red ochre-stained ropes to induce the citizens who loitered in the agora of Athens to attend the meetings of the assembly. Anyone with red-stained clothes who was not in the meeting was liable to a penalty.
- Apella
- Athenian democracy
- Heliaia
- Areopagus
- Constitution of the Athenians
Usage examples of "ecclesia".
Matra ei Filho: His Grace the Duke, who gave order to the duchy, or their Honored Eminences the Premia Sancta and Premio Sancto, who gave order to the Holy Ecclesia, which claimed primacy over all the myriad smaller Sanctias and shrines scattered throughout the city and the duchy.
There are those in the Ecclesia who already suggest we should be, and the Premia Sancta herself saw to it we were prohibited from worshiping in publicthough Duke Alejandro now has rescinded that bit of lunacy.
Unde parochiali cuidam sacerdoti dicenti sibi quod vellet suus, retenta tamen ecclesia.
II Episcopus Romae servus servorum del, omnibus electis domini ipsis fidelibus in una Ecclesia vera Catholica atque Apostolica credentibus, qui subsunt nobis secundum Petrum unicum pastorem .
There was an old title-church of Rome, titulus Pudentis, called also the ecclesia Pudentiana.
Constituit necnon Feretrum argenteum in modum Ecclesiae fabricatum atque alia quam plurima huic Sacre Edi contulit beneficia.
The earliest edition of the Malleus in the British museum reads: Nam die dnico sotularia iuuenu fungia seu pinguedie proci vt moris e p restauratoe fieri pungut et sic vbi ecclesia intrat tadiu malefice exire eccias non poterut quo adusq: exploratores aut exeunt aut illis licentia sub expssione ut sup exeundi peedat.
Ecclesiae usque ad planetas solium alienorum iam abisse et numquam redituros esse intelligimus.
Some said he had put his trust in the Ecclesia and, indeed, representatives of the Premia Sancta and Premio Sancto attended faithfully each day of meetings in the guild hall commandeered by the Provisional Corteis.
One of the Godless pilots was dead, two Speeds were totally destroyed and would not trouble the Ecclesia again, and many other Speeds were severely damaged.
Unde parochiali cuidam sacerdoti dicenti sibi quod vellet suus, retenta tamen ecclesia.
Ex ipsis devota domus praestantis ab Ursa Ecclesiae, vultumque gerens demissius altum Festa Columna jocis, necnon Sabellia mitis.
Ecclesiam furibundus introiit, inde custode remoto papam per gulam accepit, distraxit pugnis calcibusque percussit, et tanquam brutum animal intra limen ecclesiae acriter calcaribus cruentavit.
Ecclesiam furibundus introiit, inde custode remoto papam per gulam accepit, distraxit pugnis calcibusque percussit, et tanquam brutum animal intra limen ecclesiae acriter calcaribus cruentavit.
Voluntati sacrarum intendo scripturarum, vos dissonantiam facitis, verendumque est ne aratrum sanctae ecclesiae, quod in Anglia duo boves validi et pari fortitudine, ad bonum certantes, id est, rex et archiepiscopus, debeant trahere, nunc ove vetula cum tauro indomito jugata, distorqueatur a recto.