ecclesiast

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Athenagoras is not essentially an ecclesiast or a scholar.

From Time Magazine Archive

Not even the highest ecclesiast can be at his devotions always.

From Shandygaff by Morley, Christopher

But truely to tellen at the last, He was in church a noble ecclesiast.

From The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems by Purves, D. Laing

He is no hypocrite, no weary "king ecclesiast," shaking his head over the orgies of sap and song in which he can no longer share.

From Vanishing Roads and Other Essays by Le Gallienne, Richard

Though thrice a thousand years are passed Since David's son, the sad and splendid, The weary king ecclesiast Upon his awful tablets penned it.

From Thackeray by Trollope, Anthony