ecclesiast

Only those have right to the name "ecclesiast" who have been redeemed from their sins through Christ's wounds, and who live holy lives.

Epistle Sermons, Vol. II Epiphany, Easter and Pentecost Martin Luther 1514

But as Christianity began to spread throughout Anatolia, a Christian ecclesiast outlawed the cult of Artemis in the fifth century.

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But as Christianity began to spread throughout Anatolia, a Christian ecclesiast outlawed the cult of Artemis in the fifth century.

Temple of Artemis (a/k/a Diana) To Be Rebuilt in Ephesus Jan 2008

Now of offices some are discontinuous, and the same persons are not allowed to hold them twice, or can only hold them after a fixed interval; others have no limit of time — for example, the office of a dicast or ecclesiast.

Politics Aristotle 2002

For the power does not reside in the dicast, or senator, or ecclesiast, but in the court, and the senate, and the assembly, of which individual senators, or ecclesiasts, or dicasts, are only parts or members.

Politics Aristotle 2002

Let us not dwell further upon this, which is a purely verbal question; what we want is a common term including both dicast and ecclesiast.

Politics Aristotle 2002

Every worshiper was a zealot; every ecclesiast an inquisitor.

The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt Elizabeth Miller

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

Shandygaff Christopher Morley 1923

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.

Animal Ghosts Or, Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter Elliott O'Donnell 1918

I have it on the authority of a Mormon ecclesiast, who was in the political confidence of the

Under the Prophet in Utah; the National Menace of a Political Priestcraft Frank Jenne Cannon 1902