The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ecumenic \Ec`u*men"ic\, Ecumenical \Ec`u*men"ic*al\, a. [L. oecumenicus, Gr. ? (sc. ?) the inhabited world, fr. ? to inhabit, from o'i^kos house, dwelling. See Economy.] General; universal; in ecclesiastical usage, that which concerns the whole church; as, an ecumenical council.
Ecumenical Bishop, a title assumed by the popes.
Ecumenical council. See under Council.
Wiktionary
a. (alternative spelling of ecumenical English)
WordNet
adj. concerned with promoting unity among churches or religions; "ecumenical thinking"; "ecumenical activities"; "the ecumenical movement" [syn: ecumenic, oecumenic, ecumenical]
of worldwide scope or applicability; "an issue of cosmopolitan import"; "the shrewdest political and ecumenical comment of our time"- Christopher Morley; "universal experience" [syn: cosmopolitan, ecumenical, general, universal, worldwide]
Usage examples of "oecumenical".
In the pommel was imprinted the insignia of the Foederal Oecumenical Commonwealth: a sword bound into its sheath by the windings of an olive wreath.
Honorable Appellate Court of the Foederal Oecumenical Commonwealth in the matter of the estate of Helion Prime Rhadamanthus draw nigh!
The Golden Oecumenical Sophotechs are not your friends, nor are their serfs and hirelings.
But I turned the whole matter over to the constabulary once it was clear there were no Oecumenical security interests involved.
You are liable for charges of treason, which carries the only death penalty recognized by Foederal Oecumenical Commonwealth law.
The self-assertion of the recusants has found eulogists in plenty, but who has celebrated the self-denial that was thrown away on this other task, which is farther from fulfilment now than it was when the scholars of the Renaissance gave up their patriotism and the tongue of their childhood in the name of fellow-citizenship with the ancients and the oecumenical authority of letters?
The thought of an oecumenical council having its leading feature dislocated by my trifling experiment!
Hitherto the Lutherans had called themselves a part of the Roman Catholic church and had always appealed to a future oecumenical or national synod.
The Oecumenical Council was so double-edged a weapon that it is not remarkable that the popes hesitated to grasp it in their war with the heretic.
In 1931 the Oecumenical Patriarchate printed a pamphlet of it in the original Slavonic.
Oecumenical Patriarchate in Constantinople and has been paleographically dated to the mid- or late sixteenth century.