encyclic

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.