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En`cyc´lic
a.1.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.
n.1.An encyclical letter, esp. one from a pope.
encyclical, encyclic
a letter from the Pope to the Roman Catholic clergy on matters of doctrine or other concerns of the Church, of tenmeant to be read from the pulpit.
See also: Pope
a letter from the Pope to the Roman Catholic clergy on matters of doctrine or other concerns of the Church, of ten meant to be read from the pulpit.
See also: Catholicism
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Homer praised through oratory becomes the hallmark of Hellenism, an indispensable part of the encyclic paideia which rhetoric was seeking to appropriate.
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