ecclesiast

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Athenagoras is not essentially an ecclesiast or a scholar.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

It had evidently been passed on to him from a higher authority than the Abbot, for only the address was in the handwriting of that learned ecclesiast.

From The Firebrand by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

A famous ecclesiast, when on his way to the coast, was forced to spend the night in the King's Lynn Inn, owing to a violent snowstorm.

From Animal Ghosts Or, Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter by O'Donnell, Elliott

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