ecclesiast

Example Sentences

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Athenagoras is not essentially an ecclesiast or a scholar.

From Time Magazine Archive

He was somewhat prominent as an ecclesiast, and he was a Sunday School worker in his ward.

From Under the Prophet in Utah; the National Menace of a Political Priestcraft by O'Higgins, Harvey Jerrold

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

From Shandygaff by Morley, Christopher

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

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