Churchman
['tʃɜːtʃmən] or ['tʃɝtʃmən]
Definition
(n.) An ecclesiastic or clergyman.
(n.) An Episcopalian, or a member of the Established Church of England.
(n.) One was is attached to, or attends, church.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Ecclesiastic, clergyman, minister, pastor, divine, priest.[2]. Episcopalian.
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Examples
- Advise thee well, Isaac, said Locksley, what thou wilt do in this matter; my counsel to thee is to make a friend of this churchman. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- I've never changed; I'm a plain Churchman now, just as I used to be before doctrines came up. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- When did thy master hear of a Norman baron unbuckling his purse to relieve a churchman, whose bags are ten times as weighty as ours? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Win it fairly, said the Prior, and wear it as ye will; I will trust your giving true response, on your word as a knight and as a churchman. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- It was not so in my youth: a Churchman was a Churchman, and a clergyman, you might be pretty sure, was a gentleman, if nothing else. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Be ye Turks or Christians, that handle a churchman? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Are ye Christians, said the Prior, and hold this language to a churchman? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- In all Christian countries, I believe, the education of the greater part of churchmen is paid for in this manner. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Some held that churchmen should study the wisdom of the Greeks in order the better to refut e them. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The present universities of Europe were originally, the greater part of them, ecclesiastical corporations, instituted for the education of churchmen. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
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