Citations:œcumenic


 * 1588: Adam King (translator), Canisius’ Catechisme or schort instruction of christian religion, page 215
 * the decree and doctrin of the Haly, Œcumenik and General Counsel of Trent
 * 1652: John Row and J. Row [son], The historie of the kirk of Scotland 1558–1637, page 537
 * That eldershipe and breithren can know the cace better nor ane Œcumenick Synod.
 * 1715: Myles Davies, Athenæ Britannicæ, or a critical history of the Oxford and Cambridge writers and writings , book 1, preface, page 76
 * the only Author — that is universally Read — to a far more Œcumenick Intent than ever any of the Jesuit Pamphlets
 * 1835: Isaac Taylor, Spiritual despotism, second edition, chapter VI, page 263 (Holdsworth and Ball)
 * that great economy of provincial government and of œcumenic relationship
 * 1840: Penny cyclopædia of the Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge, volume 16, pages 400–402?
 * councils called Œcumenic or Œcumenical
 * 1870: Henry Thomas Taverner, John Camden Hotten, George Augustus Sala, Joseph Grego, Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, and William Moy Thomas, Charles Dickens: The story of his life, page 30 (Harper & Brothers)
 * “ Immense applause you’ve gained, O Boz ! through Continental Europe;
 * You’ll make Pickwick œcumenick;* of fame you have a sure hope;
 * For here your books are found, gadzooks ! in greater luxe than any ”
 * 1905: Emil Reich, Select Documents Illustrating Mediaeval and Modern History, page 130
 * The first œcumenic council accordingly met at Nicæa, the Emperor’s summer dwelling-place in Bithynia.
 * 1910: Carroll Davidson Wright, The new Century book of facts: a handbook of ready reference, page 130 (The King-Richardson Company)
 * First general (œcumenic) Council of the Church at Nicæa, in Bithynia, 325.
 * 1943: The International Who’s Who, page 461 (Europa Publications Limited)
 * Bishop of Old Catholic Church of Switzerland and Prof. of Church History and Law Berne Univ.; Editor Internationale Kirchliche Zeitschrift; mem. Council of World Conf. of Faith and Order and of the Œcumenic Council for Practical Christianity.
 * 1969: New Moral World, volume 5, page 548 (Greenwood Reprint Corporation)
 * No sooner was he secure of the throne, than he convoked an œcumenic council at Nice
 * 1974: Eric Voegelin, Order and History, volume 4: The Œcumenic Age, fourth-volume title (Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press)
 * The Œcumenic Age
 * 1988: Société psychanalytique de Paris, Revue française de psychanalyse, volume 52, page 1,105 (Presses universitaire de France)
 * Wouldn’t it be preferable to make an inventory of these differences before revelling in or reassuring oneself of the œcumenic fantasy that such a family is
 * 1992: Jules Michelet and G. H. Smith, History of France from the earliest period to the present time, page 106 (D. Appleton & Co.)
 * If ever general council was œcumenic, it was this of Constance.