representing a number of different Christian Churches 全基督教的 ■promoting or relating to unity among the world's Christian Churches (促进)世界基督教大联合的 the ecumenical movement. 促进世界基督教大联合运动。
派生 ecumenically adverb 语源
late 16th cent. (in the sense 'belonging to the universal Church'): via late Latin from Greek oikoumenikos from oikoumenē 'the (inhabited) earth'