ecclesiastically

1. 1.

   in an ecclesiastic manner

   “the candidate was ecclesiastically endorsed”

Questions about ecclesiastically

What does ecclesiastically mean?

ecclesiastically means "in an ecclesiastic manner".

How many syllables are in ecclesiastically?

ecclesiastically has 7 syllables and divides as ec-cle-si-a-sti-cal-ly under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is ecclesiastically a common word?

ecclesiastically 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.