ecclesiast

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Athenagoras is not essentially an ecclesiast or a scholar.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

From Shandygaff by Morley, Christopher

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