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Definitions: Ecumenical |
EcumenicalAdjective1. Concerned with promoting unity among churches or religions; "ecumenical thinking"; "ecumenical activities"; "the ecumenical movement". 2. Of worldwide scope or applicability; "an issue of cosmopolitan import"; "the shrewdest political and ecumenical comment of our time"- Christopher Morley; "universal experience". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "ecumenical" was first used: some time around 1570. (references) |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| ECUSAT | English | Ecumenical Satellite Commision | N/A |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches an ecumenical council is a council of nearly all bishops of the whole church, capable of infallible decisions on theological questions. Catholics construe "the whole church" as including only Catholics. Eastern Orthodoxy construes it as including both the Eastern Orthodox and Catholic churches, including all Eastern Orthodox patriarchs and the Roman pope. Consequently, Eastern Orthodoxy does not recognize the infallibility or ecumenicity of any council that has met since the two churches separated from each other in the 11th century (see the Great Schism).
See also Ecumenism.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Ecumenical."
Synonyms: EcumenicalSynonyms: cosmopolitan (adj), ecumenic (adj), general (adj), oecumenic (adj), oecumenical (adj), universal (adj), worldwide (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Generality | Universal; catholic, catholical; common, worldwide; ecumenical, oecumenical; transcendental; prevalent, prevailing, rife, epidemic, besetting; all over, covered with. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Ecumenical |
| English words defined with "ecumenical": cosmopolitan ♦ ecumenic, Ecumenical Bishop, Ecumenical Movement, ecumenicalism, ecumenicism, ecumenism ♦ general ♦ oecumenic, oecumenical, Old Catholic ♦ Papal infallibility ♦ universal ♦ World Council of Churches, worldwide. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "ecumenical": Councils. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I'm interested in doing a weekly dramatic series based on the Ecumenical Liberation Army. (Network; writing credit: Paddy Chayefsky) | |
Lyrics | Another big news story of year concerned the ecumenical council in Rome, known as Vatican II. Among the things they did in an attempt to make the church more commercial was to introduce the vernacular into portions of the mass, to replace Latin, and to widen somewhat the range of music permissible in the liturgy, but I feel that if they really want to sell the product, in this secular age, what they ought to do is to redo some of the liturgical music in popular song forms. ("The Vatican Rag"; performing artist: Tom Lehrer) | |
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Civil Liberties | Turkey | The Ecumenical Patriarchate in Istanbul consistently has expressed interest in reopening its seminary on the island of Halki in the Sea of Marmara. (references) |
Angola | Church-based organizations called for peace and dialog, particularly the ecumenical Inter-Church Committee for Peace in Angola (COIEPA) and the Catholic Pro Pace movement. (references) | |
Morocco | He also called a September 16 ecumenical ceremony in the Rabat cathedral "a big sin" for Muslims and stated that "the notion of dialogue among the three monotheistic religions is a Zionist idea." Kettan's uncensored criticism attacked the King both as the political and religious leader of the country. (references) | |
Economic History | Greece | The Greek Orthodox Church is self-governing but under the spiritual guidance of the Ecumenical Patriarch in Istanbul. (references) |
Human Rights | Haiti | Organizations such as the NCHR, the Platform of Haitian Human Rights Organizations, the Human Rights Fund, and the Ecumenical Center for Human Rights reported receiving repeated threats, most of them anonymous. (references) |
Philippines | However, the NGO Ecumenical Commission for Displaced Families and Communities (ECDFC) reported that in March, 100 squatter families were displaced in a demolition of housing on government property in Quezon City. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Ecumenical" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 92.26% of the time. "Ecumenical" is used about 336 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 92.26% | 310 | 16,399 |
| Noun (proper) | 7.74% | 26 | 68,323 |
| Total | 100.00% | 336 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "ecumenical": ecumenic oecumenic ecumenical oecumenical ♦ Ecumenical Bishop ♦ Ecumenical council ♦ ecumenical Movement. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "ecumenical": anti-ecumenical, proto-ecumenical, pseudo-ecumenical. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
ecumenical | 54 |
ecumenical council | 12 |
ecumenical movement | 11 |
ecumenical rosary | 3 |
ecumenical prayer | 3 |
ecumenical seminary theological | 3 |
ecumenical miracle rosary | 3 |
church council ecumenical | 3 |
church ecumenical | 3 |
ecumenical institute | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "ecumenical"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i përgjithshëm (all out, appellative, blanket, common, general, generic, overall, public, sketchy, universal). (various references) | |
Arabic | مسكوني (oecumenical), عالمي (cosmopolitan, global, globular, international, macroscopic, oecumenical, scholarly, secular, universal). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | вселенски (catholic, oecumenical). (various references) | |
Chinese | 普遍 (Commonplace, Popular, universal, universally, Widespread). (various references) | |
Czech | ekumenický. (various references) | |
Dutch | OIKOS (Education and Campaigns in the Netherlands, OIKOS Ecumenical Development Organisation for Research), Oecumenische Jeugdraad (Ecumenical Youth Council), Oecumenisch Instituut Kerk en Ontwikkelingssamenwerking (Education and Campaigns in the Netherlands, OIKOS Ecumenical Development Organisation for Research). (various references) | |
Farsi | مربوطبه سرتاسرجهان , عام (Generic), جهانی (Epidemic, Global, Planetary, Universal). (various references) | |
French | "cuménique. (various references) | |
German | ökumenisch (oecumenical). (various references) | |
Greek | οικουμενικόσ. (various references) | |
Hebrew | אקומ י, כלל וצרי. (various references) | |
Hungarian | ökumenikus (oecumenical). (various references) | |
Indonesian | ekumenis. (various references) | |
Italian | ecumenico (oecumenical). (various references) | |
Manx | eddyr-agglishagh. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ecumenicalay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | equatoriano (ecuadorian). (various references) | |
Russian | всемирный (catholic, global, mondial, oecumenical, supranational, universal). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | ekumenski (oecumenical), vaseljenski (oecumenical). (various references) | |
Spanish | ecuménico (oecumenical). (various references) | |
Swedish | ekumenisk. (various references) | |
Thai | เกี่ยวกับสัมพันธ าพระหว่างศาสนาต่างๆ, ที่ช่วยส่งเสริมความสามัคคีของคริสเตียนทั่วโลก. (various references) | |
Turkish | kiliselerin evrenselleşmesi ile ilgili (oecumenical). (various references) | |
Ukranian | всесвітній (catholic, oecumenical, universal, worldwide), вселенський (catholic, oecumenical). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | to n thế giới (oecumenical). (various references) | |
Welsh | eciwmenaidd. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | oecumenicus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "ecumenical": ecumenicalism, ecumenicalisms, ecumenically. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "ecumenical": oecumenical. (additional references) | |
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"Ecumenical" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: eccumenical, eccuminical, echumenical, ecuenical, ecumencial, ecumenica, ecumenicals, ecumennical, ecuminical, ecumneical, ecunemical, ecunenical, Oecumenici. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "ecumenical" (pronounced e'kyuwme"nikul) |
| 6 | -e" n i k u l | galenical. |
| 5 | -n i k u l | botanical, conical, cynical, electromechanical, ethnical, ironical, mechanical, nontechnical, preclinical, puritanical, rabbinical, technical, tyrannical. |
| 4 | -i k u l | acoustical, alphabetical, analytical, antithetical, apolitical, archaeological, archeological, astrological, astronautical, astronomical, asymmetrical, atypical, autobiographical, bicycle, biographical, biological, biomedical, biotechnological, categorical, cervical, chronological, classical, comical, critical, cubicle, cyclical, cylindrical, dermatological, diabolical, dialectical, ecclesiastical, ecological, economical, egotistical, electrical, electrochemical, elliptical, empirical, encyclical, epidemiological, eschatological, ethical, evangelical, fanatical, geographical, geological, geometrical, geopolitical, graphical, gynecological, helical, heretical, historical, hypercritical, hypocritical, hysterical, icicle, identical, ideological, illogical, immunological, inimical, lackadaisical, lexical, liturgical, logical, logistical, lyrical, magical, mathematical, metallurgical, metaphorical, metaphysical, methodological, metrical, morphological, musical, mystical, mythological, neoclassical, neurological, nonelectrical, nonpolitical, nonsensical, nonsurgical, ontological, optical, ornithological, paradoxical, pathological, pedagogical, periodical, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, pharmacological, philosophical, phonological, physical, physiological, popsicle, problematical, prototypical, psychical, psychological, radiological, rhetorical, sabbatical, semiclassical, semicylindrical, semitropical, serological, sociological, spherical, statistical, stereotypical, strategical, surgical, symmetrical, tactical, technological, teleological, testicle, theatrical, theological, theoretical, topical, toxicological, tricycle, tropical, typographical, umbilical, uncritical, uneconomical, unethical, untypical, vehicle, vertical, viatical, virological, whimsical, zoological. |
| 3 | -k u l | aeronautical, agrochemical, allegorical, anarchical, anatomical, ankle, anthropological, article, barnacle, biblical, bifocal, biochemical, brickle, buckle, cackle, chemical, Chronicle, chuckle, circle, clavicle, clerical, clinical, commonsensical, coracle, cortical, crackle, cuticle, cycle, debacle, diacritical, domical, ducal, encircle, epochal, equivocal, etymological, farcical, fecal, fickle, fiscal, focal, follicle, freckle, geophysical, gonococcal, grackle, grammatical, granduncle, hackle, heckle, heterocercal, hierarchical, honeysuckle, Huckle, hypothetical, impractical, jackal, knuckle, local, maniacal, matriarchal, medical, meikle, meteorological, methodical, Mickle, miracle, monocle, motorcycle, muckle, mythical, nautical, nickel, Nickle, Nicol, numerical, obstacle, Oracle, oratorical, particle, patriarchal, photochemical, pickle, pinnacle, polemical, political, pontifical, practical, pumpernickel, quizzical, radical, ramshackle, rankle, rascal, receptacle, reciprocal, recycle, ruckle, runkle, satirical, shackle, shekel, sickle, skeptical, Sokol, sparkle, speckle, spectacle, sprinkle, stickle, suckle, tabernacle, tackle, tentacle, tickle, tinkle, trickle, twinkle, typical, uncle, unequivocal, unicycle, unshackle, vocal, Winkle, wrinkle. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-e-e-i-l-m-n-u" | |
-2 letters: ecumenic, leucemia, leucemic. | |
-3 letters: alumine, calcine, calcium, cauline, cenacle, eucaine, leucine, licence, lucence, melanic. | |
-4 letters: aculei, acumen, aecium, almuce, alumin, alumni, anemic, caecum, cancel, celiac, cicale, cinema, cuneal, enamel, enlace, iceman, icemen, inlace, lacune, launce, leucin, lumina, macule, malice, maline, mealie, meanie, menace, menial, neumic, nuclei, unciae, uncial, unlace. | |
-5 letters: acmic, alien, aline, amice, amine, amnic, anele, anile, anime, aulic, camel, cecal, cecum, claim, clean, clime, cline, cumin, elain, elemi, email, enema, ileac, ileum, lance, leman, liane, liman, limen, linac, linum, lumen, macle, maile, malic, manic, mecca, melic, miaul, minae, mince, mucin, neume, niece, ulema, ulnae, umiac, uncia, uncle. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-c-e-e-i-l-m-n-u" | |
+1 letter: oecumenical. | |
+2 letters: ecumenically. | |
+3 letters: ecumenicalism, neurochemical. | |
+4 letters: counterclaimed, ecumenicalisms, neurochemicals. | |
+5 letters: circumferential. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 63 75 6D 65 6E 69 63 61 6C |
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references). -.-. ..- -- . -. .. -.-. .- .-.. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01100011 01110101 01101101 01100101 01101110 01101001 01100011 01100001 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E c u m e n i c a l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0063 0075 006D 0065 006E 0069 0063 0061 006C |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)39698779718075696778 |
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