Every worshiper was a zealot; every ecclesiast an inquisitor.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Politics] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Politics] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Politics] Reference

Not even the highest ecclesiast can be at his devotions always.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shandygaff] Reference

He was somewhat prominent as an ecclesiast, and he was a Sunday School worker in his ward.    From Wordnik.com.  [Under the Prophet in Utah; the National Menace of a Political Priestcraft] Reference

I have it on the authority of a Mormon ecclesiast, who was in the political confidence of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Under the Prophet in Utah; the National Menace of a Political Priestcraft] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Animal Ghosts Or, Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter] Reference

"king ecclesiast," shaking his head over the orgies of sap and song in which he can no longer share.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vanishing Roads and Other Essays] Reference

Yet in the face of all these exaction's of tithes and donations, the ecclesiast still boasts: "We are not like the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Under the Prophet in Utah; the National Menace of a Political Priestcraft] Reference

Some ecclesiast rises in the pulpit and reads from his list: "It is moved and seconded that we sustain Joseph F. Smith as Prophet, Seer and Revelator to all the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [Under the Prophet in Utah; the National Menace of a Political Priestcraft] Reference

DUPIN, Bibl. des auteurs ecclesiast.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize] Reference

372): "Not only in zeal for the Faith, in moral purity and strength of character, was he unsurpassed, but he was also unequalled in knowledge of the world, in experience of ecclesiast ical affairs, and in the services which he rendered to the papal authority.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux] Reference

Juris ecclesiast.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize] Reference

The weary king ecclesiast.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thackeray] Reference

"Corpus script.ecclesiast. latinorum".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent] Reference