[f. ECCLESIOLOGY + -IC, -ICAL.] Of or pertaining to ecclesiology; devoted to ecclesiology. Hence Ecclesiologically adv., from an ecclesiological point of view.
1847. Handbk. Engl. Ecclesiology, 1. Church Schemes published by the Ecclesiological late Cambridge Camden Society.
1853. Cdl. Wiseman, Ess., III. 391. The ecclesiological movement in the Anglican Church.
1864. Mrs. Oliphant, Perpetual Curate, III. xlv. 200. Buller … is too ecclesiological for my taste.
1882. F. Harrison, Choice of Bks., etc. (1886), 286. The Church of St. Peter … pranked out with staring ecclesiologic trumpery, is … of rare antiquity.
1884. B. H. Becker, in Eng. Illustr. Mag., Feb., 339/1. The more correct ecclesiological taste developed by Pugin.
