Ecclesiasticus
Meanings
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- A book of the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox canon of the Old Testament, considered apocryphal by Protestants.
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Etymology
From Middle English Ecclesiasticus, from Late Latin Ecclēsiasticus, probably short for liber ecclēsiasticus (“church book”), from its use in church readings. Doublet of ecclesiastic.
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