Ecclesiast

Ecclesiast
Ecclesiast Ec*cle"si*ast, n. 1. An ecclesiastic. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]

2. The Apocryphal book of Ecclesiasticus. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]


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