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noun- Clergyman, priest.

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Usage examples (16)
  • Every worshiper was a zealot; every ecclesiast an inquisitor.
  • 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.
  • 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,...
  • 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...
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