12) short shrift. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...our verb shrive (shrove, shriven) and noun shrift, which have technical meanings from ecclesiastical Latin, is Classical Latin scrbere, to write. Shrive comes from...

13) ordinand. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...Ecclesiastical A person who is a candidate for ordination. From Latin ordinandus, gerundive of ordinre, to set in place, appoint. See ordinate....

14) beneficiary. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...property, or other benefits, as from an insurance policy or will. 3. Ecclesiastical The holder of a benefice. Medieval Latin beneficirius, holder of a feudal benefice,...

15) dirge. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...sight. The part of the Office of the Dead that begins with this antiphon was named Drige in Ecclesiastical Latin. This word with this meaning was borrowed into English...

16) glebe. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...land belonging or yielding profit to an English parish church or an ecclesiastical office. 2. Archaic The soil or earth; land. Latin glba, clod....

17) sacrarium. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...Inflected forms: pl. saˇcrarˇiˇa (- Ecclesiastical 1. The sanctuary or sacristy of a church. 2. Piscina. Medieval Latin sacrrium, from Latin, shrine, from sacer,...

18) ultramontane. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...Roman Catholic Church One who advocates support of papal policy in ecclesiastical and political matters. Medieval Latin ultrmontnus : Latin ultr-, ultra- + Latin...

19) surplice. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...white ecclesiastical gown with wide sleeves, worn over a cassock. Middle English surplis, from Anglo-Norman surpliz, variant of Old French sourpeliz, from Medieval...

20) Bede. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...Anglo-Saxon theologian and historian whose major work, Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation (731), written in Latin, remains an important source of ancient...