ecclesiast

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Athenagoras is not essentially an ecclesiast or a scholar.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

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)

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