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Encyclical   Listen
noun
Encyclical, Encyclic  n.  An encyclical letter, esp. one from a pope.






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"Encyclical" Quotes from Famous Books



... Ferrer at the Gregorian University, or Father Mendia. He is an encyclopedist. It was he who wrote the theological portion of the encyclical Pascendi, the one about Modernism. He is a man ...
— Caesar or Nothing • Pio Baroja Baroja

... thought him most frivolous. But I liked him the better of the two. He was not a country cure, but an eccle- siastic of some rank, who had seen a good deal both of the church and of the world; and if I too had not been afraid of his colleague, who read the "Figaro" as seriously as if it had been an encyclical, I should have ...
— A Little Tour in France • Henry James

... matter cannot be revealed to the historian. This may be good philosophy, but we could not think so if we were good Christians. We should then expect to move matter by prayer. Rationalistic history and criticism are therefore based, as Pius X. most accurately observed in his Encyclical on modernism, on rationalistic philosophy; and we might add that rationalistic philosophy is based on practical art, and that practical art, by which we help ourselves, like Prometheus, and make instruments of what ...
— Winds Of Doctrine - Studies in Contemporary Opinion • George Santayana



Words linked to "Encyclical" :   missive, encyclical letter, letter, distributed



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