ecclesiastic
1.an office of archives for public or ecclesiastic records; a court of public records.
2.The illegitimate son of an ecclesiastic who has taken a vow of celibacy.
3.The illegitimate daughter of an ecclesiastic who has taken a vow of celibacy.
4.A medieval ecclesiastic authorized to raise money for religious works by granting papal indulgences to contributors.
5.They should see the courts of justice, while they sit and hear causes; and so of consistories ecclesiastic; the churches and monasteries, with the monuments which are therein extant;
