different between eclectic vs ecumenical

English

Alternative forms

• eclectick (obsolete)

Etymology

From French éclectique, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (eklektikós, “selective”), from ?????? (eklég?, “I pick, choose”), from ?? (ek, “out, from”) + ???? (lég?, “I choose, count”).

Cognate to elect

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?l?k.t?k/, /??kl?k.t?k/
• Rhymes: -?kt?k

Adjective

eclectic (comparative more eclectic, superlative most eclectic)

1. Selecting a mixture of what appears to be best of various doctrines, methods or styles.
   • 1893, John Robson, Hinduism and its Relations to Christianity, page 211, 214

     Chunder Sen and the Progressive Brahmists broke entirely with Hinduism...and he selected from the scriptures of all creeds what seemed best in them for instruction and for worship. […] It is an eclectic religion: it seeks to select what is good from all religions, and it has become the latest evidence that no eclectic religion can ever influence large numbers of men.

2. Unrelated and unspecialized; heterogeneous.

Synonyms

• (unrelated and unspecialized): heterogeneous; see also Thesaurus:heterogeneous

Antonyms

• (selecting a mixture of doctrines): exclusive, homogeneous, orthodox, standard, uniform; see also Thesaurus:homogeneous

Derived terms

• eclectically
• eclecticism

Translations

See also

• cherry pick
• heteroclite
• holistic

Noun

eclectic (plural eclectics)

1. Someone who selects according to the eclectic method.

Translations

Romanian

Etymology

From French éclectique

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e?klek.tik/

Adjective

eclectic m or n (feminine singular eclectic?, masculine plural eclectici, feminine and neuter plural eclectice)

1. eclectic

Declension

English

Alternative forms

• œcumenical
• oecumenical

Etymology

From ecumenic +? -al.?

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?i?k.j??m?.n?.k?l/, /??k.j??m?.n?.k?l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??k.j??m?.n?.k?l/

Adjective

ecumenical (not comparable)

1. (ecclesiastical) Pertaining to the universal Church, representing the entire Christian world; interdenominational; sometimes by extension, interreligious. [from 16th c.]
   • 1999, Dr Martyn Percy, The Guardian, 5 Jun 1999:

     Within Europe, the church's ecumenical partnerships have demonstrated that ecclesial unity may have political resonances.

   • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 215:

     Nicaea has always been regarded as one of the milestones in the history of the Church, and reckoned as the first council to be styled ‘general’ or ‘oecumenical’.

   • 2010, ‘Britain's ancient shame in Slovenia’, The Economist, 30 Oct 2010:

     Rather touchingly, an ecumenical mass of reparation for the victims of the massacres was held on October 29, in the very English village of Great Missenden in Buckinghamshire. The service was led by the Catholic bishop of Northampton, with Archbishop Metropolitan Stres from Ljubljana and the Anglican bishop of Buckingham.

2. General, universal, worldwide. [from 17th c.]

Synonyms

• (general, universal): universal, worldwide

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