ecclesiast
Example Sentences
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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 S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
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 Harvey Jerrold O'Higgins
Henry becoming an ecclesiast was created abbot of Glastonbury and bishop of Winchester.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 05 (From Charlemagne to Frederick Barbarossa) by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne
But truely to tellen at the last, He was in church a noble ecclesiast.
From The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems by D. Laing Purves
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 Anthony Trollope
