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

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

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

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