Ecclesiasticus

noun Ec·cle·si·as·ti·cus \-ti-kəs\

Definition of ECCLESIASTICUS

: a didactic book included in the Protestant Apocrypha and as Sirach in the Roman Catholic canon of the Old Testament

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Late Latin, from ecclesiasticus

First Known Use: 1533

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