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Conciliar
CONCILIAR
,Adj.
Definition 2024
conciliar
conciliar
English
Adjective
conciliar (comparative more conciliar, superlative most conciliar)
- 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.
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 560:
Derived terms
Spanish
Adjective
conciliar m, f (plural conciliares)
- Of or pertaining to a council
Noun
conciliar m (plural conciliares)
Verb
conciliar (first-person singular present concilio, first-person singular preterite concilié, past participle conciliado)
Etymology
From Latin conciliāre
- to conciliate, to make calm
- conciliar el sueño - "get to sleep"
Conjugation
1Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.