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Conciliary vs Conciliar - What's the difference?

conciliary | conciliar |

As adjectives the difference between conciliary and conciliar

is that conciliary is of or relating to a council, particularly with respect to municipal government; issued by a council while conciliar is pertaining to a council, especially an ecclesiastical council.

conciliary

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of or relating to a council, particularly with respect to municipal government; issued by a council.

    • conciliar

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Pertaining to a council, especially an ecclesiastical council.
  • * 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 560:
    • The next few years saw increasing tension between those wishing to develop this conciliar mechanism and successive popes seeking to build on the papacy's newly restored integrity.
  • *2011 , (Norman Davies), Vanished Kingdoms , Penguin 2012, p. 347:
  • *:This was the era which witnessed the beginnings of the conciliar movement, which sought to subordinate the papacy to the decisions of Church Councils.

    • Derived terms

    * conciliarism * conciliarist * conciliarly ----