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1549 Melton Mowbray Churchwardens' Accts. in Trans. Leicestershire Architec. & Archaeol. Soc. (1874) 3 186 Rec^d of the Churchmen of Kyrckby for a Bell clapper 6^s/8^d.

1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 104 Any Bishoppes, Abbottes, Priors, or any other Church men.

1594 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 ii. i. 25 Church-men so hote.

1612 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 25 A single life is proper for churchmen.

1672 J. Dryden Conquest Granada i. iv. ii. 49 Pray'rs are the Alms of Church-men to the Poor: They send to Heaven's; but drive us from their door.

1728 J. Morgan Compl. Hist. Algiers I. v. 162 He..was a Spanish Churchman.

1797 M. Robinson Walsingham III. 65 The tithe-pamper'd churchman reviles at the poor.

1852 G. Bancroft Hist. Amer. Revol. II. xiv. 328 The churchmen of New York preached loyalty to the king as the Lord's anointed.

1872 J. A. H. Murray in Complaynt Scotl. Introd. p. cix This Sir James Inglis, a ‘Pope's Knight’, was a churchman of considerable distinction at court in the reign of James V.

1926 R. H. Tawney Relig. & Rise Capitalism i. 52 The towns did not look with favour on the interference of churchmen in matters of business.

1958 Punch 9 July 44/3 Cooney's Cassocks stand the test, Choosy Churchmen say they're best.

2008 New Yorker 17 Nov. 69/3 He joined older civil-rights leaders and churchmen in commemorating the voting-rights marches a generation ago.

1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. 143 Their principall Church gouernour is called Mufti..The other sort of Church-men are the Naipi..the Caddi [&c].

1665 Voy. E.-India in G. Havers tr. P. della Valle Trav. E. India 444 Their Priests they call Darors..Those Church-men by their Law are commanded..to abide much in their Eggarees, or Temples.

1769 Real Seeker xlv. 330 Those Jewish churchmen, would, in conferring favours,..give the preference to those of their own persuasion.

1855 J. H. Fowles Serm. Church of Epiphany, Philadelphia xiv. 214 Let it not..be supposed, that..any absolute praise of these Jewish churchmen was intended.

1913 Pacific Unitarian Nov. 12/2 The despised of the churchmen of the time, the Samaritan, ministered to the man in distress.

2001 G. Langtree et al. One World, Many Issues (new ed.) v. 162 Senior Muslim churchman Hassan Sanei said his..charity foundation would pay the money.

1612 T. Taylor Αρχὴν Ἁπάντων: Comm. Epist. Paul to Titus (ii. 12) 466 Many a man thinketh himselfe soundly taught in Christianitie, if he can..be reputed a good Churchman, and a quiet neighbour, and so liue out of the gunshot of the lawe.

1675 A. Marvell Let. 24 July in Poems & Lett. (1971) II. 342 Strangways, a flagrant Churchman, made Privy Counsellor.

1715 D. Defoe Family Instructor I. i. v. 126 Child, your Aunt is a Dissenter, you know. But Madam, my Uncle is a Churchman.

1781 S. Peters Gen. Hist. Connecticut 286 A religious test..will ever keep all churchmen..from governmental employments in Connecticut.

1822 W. Irving Bracebridge Hall 54 He is moreover..a stanch churchman. He repeats the responses very loudly in church, and is emphatical in praying for the king and royal family.

1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 14 Aug. 4/2 The most animated debate of the whole Conference was that between Churchmen and undenominationalists.

1935 A. Cruse Victorians & their Bks. iv. 66 Most Churchmen really did look down upon the Dissenters.

1967 Musical Times 108 850/2 Applicants, who should be communicant churchmen, are invited to write to The Vicar.

1996 J. Updike In Beauty of Lilies 66 My father..a steadfast churchman, and a double-tither no matter how high or low that year's income—presented for my emulation a stern rectitude.