ecclesiast

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Athenagoras is not essentially an ecclesiast or a scholar.

From Time Magazine Archive

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)

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

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

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