The Collaborative International Dictionary
Churchman \Church"man\, n.; pl. Churchmen.
An ecclesiastic or clergyman.
An Episcopalian, or a member of the Established Church of England. ``A zealous churchman.''
--Macaulay.One was is attached to, or attends, church.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of churchman English)
Usage examples of "churchmen".
They killed all the men inside the castle - except for the churchmen - and then they brought out the count's wife and daughters.
After that, they drove the churchmen out of the castle and looted the place.
I have also ordered them to seek out the churchmen who were in the castle of Count Radun and witnessed this horror and to return with them to Cimmura.
The patriarch's house, unlike the palaces of most other high churchmen, was simple and unadorned.
He removed his helm and tucked it under his arm and proceeded on along the corridor until he reached a large room where a dozen churchmen sat at tables sorting through stacks of documents.
The benches were filled with elderly churchmen in sober black, the Hierocracy of the Elene Church.
Although many local merchants affected the sombre black of churchmen, visitors usually did not, and their bright clothing stood out by contrast.
Although it was night, there was always the possibility that one of the many churchmen who lived within the confines of the cathedral might be up and about, and Sparhawk preferred to keep his visit a secret and to avoid confrontations.
A rider had just left her and it was his message that held her thoughtful and almost sad, awaiting the churchmen who were coming to resent and attack her right to befriend a Gentile.
But Tull and his churchmen wouldn’t ruin Jane Withersteen unless the Church was to profit by that ruin.
Her churchmen might take her cattle and horses, ranges and fields, her corrals and stables, the house of Withersteen and the water that nourished the village of Cottonwoods.
As for Tull and his churchmen, when they had harassed her, perhaps made her poor, they would find her unchangeable, and then she would get back most of what she had lost.
If she could rule this gun-man, as Venters had called him, if she could even keep him from shedding blood, what strategy to play his flame and his presence against the game of oppression her churchmen were waging against her?
It was unusual that none of her churchmen or friends had called upon her of late.
She had a half-formed conviction that her future conduct – as related to her churchmen – was beyond her control and would be governed by their attitude toward her.