The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ecclesiast \Ec*cle"si*ast\, n.
An ecclesiastic.
--Chaucer.The Apocryphal book of Ecclesiasticus. [Obs.]
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n. A member of the Athenian Ecclesia
Usage examples of "ecclesiast".
And then would he upon his Bible seek That ilke* proverb of Ecclesiast, *same Where he commandeth, and forbiddeth fast, Man shall not suffer his wife go roll about.
To add a final insult to the whole matter, Garion insisted that he and Belgarath accompany the fuming ecclesiast to his ship to see him off - and to be certain that no Bear-cultist might inadvertently be left behind.
The imagined prospect of the helpless rage into which this would plummet the towering ecclesiast was almost a satisfaction in itself.
My sister and Riva endured the droning sermon of the ecclesiast lecturing them on the duties of marriage.