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encyclical
| encyclical letter
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| encyclopaedia
| encyclopaedic
| encyclopaedism
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encyclical
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun encyclical has 1 sense
- encyclical(n = noun.communication) encyclical letter - a letter from the pope sent to all Roman Catholic bishops throughout the world; Array is a kind of letter, missive
Adjective encyclical has 1 sense
CIDE DICTIONARY
encyclical, a. [L. encyclios of a circle, general, Gr. ; in + circle: cf. F. encyclique. See Cycle.].
Sent to many persons or places; intended for many, or for a whole order of men; general; circular; as, an encyclical letter of a council, of a bishop, or the pope.
encyclical, n.
An encyclical letter, esp. one from a pope. Shipley.
OXFORD DICTIONARY
encyclical, n. & adj.
--n. a papal letter sent to all bishops of the Roman Catholic Church.
--adj. (of a letter) for wide circulation.
--n. a papal letter sent to all bishops of the Roman Catholic Church.
--adj. (of a letter) for wide circulation.
Etymology
LL encyclicus f. Gk egkuklios (as EN-(2), kuklos circle)
THESAURUS
encyclical
Pastoral Epistle, aerogram, air letter, airgraph, announcement, annunciation, billet-doux, bull, bulletin board, chain letter, circular, communique, dead letter, declaration, dimissorial, dimissory letter, drop letter, edict, enunciation, fan letter, form letter, letter of credit, letter of introduction, letters credential, letters of marque, letters of request, letters overt, letters patent, letters rogatory, love letter, manifesto, monitory, newsletter, nixie, notice, notification, open letter, pastoral letter, poison-pen letter, position paper, proclamation, program, programma, pronouncement, pronunciamento, public notice, report, round robin, statement, ukase, white book, white paperROGET THESAURUS
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Publication
N publication, public announcement, promulgation, propagation, proclamation, pronunziamento, circulation, indiction, edition, hue and cry, publicity, notoriety, currency, flagrancy, cry, bruit, hype, vox populi, report, the Press, public press, newspaper, journal, gazette, daily, telegraphy, publisher, imprint, circular, circular letter, manifesto, advertisement, ad, placard, bill, affiche, broadside, poster, notice, published, current, in circulation, public, notorious, flagrant, arrant, open, trumpet-tongued, encyclical, encyclic, promulgatory, exoteric, publicly, in open court, with open doors, Int, Oyez!, O yes!, notice!, notice is hereby given, this is to give, these are to give notice, nomina stultorum parietibus haerent, semel emissum volat irrevocabile verbum.
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