ecclesiast

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Athenagoras is not essentially an ecclesiast or a scholar.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

I am so much of a natural church-woman, I might say an ecclesiast, that I at once began to dream of a church of true womanhood.

From Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 by Elliott, Maud Howe

Henry becoming an ecclesiast was created abbot of Glastonbury and bishop of Winchester.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 05 (From Charlemagne to Frederick Barbarossa) by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)