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Ecclesiastical vs Compounder - What's the difference?

ecclesiastical | compounder |

As an adjective ecclesiastical

is of or pertaining to the church.

As a noun compounder is

a person who compounds (mixes ingredients, and tests the result).

ecclesiastical

English

Alternative forms

* ecclesiasticall (obsolete)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of or pertaining to the church
    • ecclesiastical architecture

    Related terms

    * antiecclesiastical * nonecclesiastical

    Synonyms

    * (l) * ecclesiastic (less common)

    See also

    *

    compounder

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who compounds (mixes ingredients, and tests the result)
    • a compounder of medicines
  • One who attempts to bring persons or parties to terms of agreement, or to accomplish ends by compromises.
  • * Burke
    • Compounder in politics.
  • One who compounds a debt, obligation, or crime.
  • * Hudibras
    • Religious houses made compounders / For the horrid actions of their founders.
  • (UK, archaic) One at a university who pays extraordinary fees for the degree he is to take.
  • (UK, historical) A Jacobite who favoured the restoration of (James II), on condition of a general amnesty and of guarantees for the security of the civil and ecclesiastical constitution of the realm.