semi-ecclesiastical

She took them, the cat attendant, to the larder, and laid them on a plate in that semi-ecclesiastical apartment.

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I believe that she had not sinned in her dress against any of those canons which the semi-ecclesiastical authorities on widowhood have laid down as to the outward garments fitted for gentlemen's relicts.

Can You Forgive Her? 1993

Then a number of chubby-cheeked little boys in semi-ecclesiastical costume, improvised -- no doubt under clerical supervision -- by careful hands at home.

Schwartz: A History From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray David Christie Murray

Rome -- meaning the whole semi-political, semi-ecclesiastical structure of dogmatic supernaturalism -- as that "profane Babylon" but also reveals his rejection of the distinctively religious experience itself by characterizing as "an impudent wench" the Christian church.

Preaching and Paganism Albert Parker Fitch

At its eastern end is a semi-ecclesiastical addition, with pointed windows having coloured glass of no particular merit.

Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter James Conway Walter

Moriarty, who takes up the collection in church and has thus a semi-ecclesiastical status in life, which shows itself in his speech, said this to me only last evening.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, June 6, 1917 Various

The secular and semi-ecclesiastical or simply religious music of the Middle Ages had

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

Then he turned, facing again the spacious, handsome room with its heavy, semi-ecclesiastical furniture, and Sir Terence, who, hunched in his chair at the ponderously carved black writing-table, scowled fiercely at nothing.

The Snare Rafael Sabatini 1912

Parliament, who had been invested with a semi-ecclesiastical nature.

Henry VIII. 1908

He is followed by the archdukes, conspicuous among them the gigantic Archduke Eugene, grand master of the Teutonic Order, in the semi-ecclesiastical habits of his rank, while the procession is brought to a close by escorts of the superbly arrayed Archer and Hungarian Body Guards.

The Secret Memoirs of the Courts of Europe Fontenoy, Mme La Marquise De 1900