ecclesiast

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Athenagoras is not essentially an ecclesiast or a scholar.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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)

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