ecclesiastical law

1. 1.

   the body of codified laws governing the affairs of a Christian church

   Synonymscanon law

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Questions about ecclesiastical law

What does ecclesiastical law mean?

ecclesiastical law means "the body of codified laws governing the affairs of a Christian church".

What is another word for ecclesiastical law?

Close synonyms include canon law. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ecclesiastical law a common word?

ecclesiastical law is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.