Examples from literature

• A respectable number of ecclesiastics, who had already submitted to the law, accepted the elections. 
• I saw at once that a refusal would have horrified the ecclesiastic. 
• It happened that a learned ecclesiastic of noble family lived in this place, and she sought relief in confessions to him. 
• Many of the Irish ecclesiastics themselves seem to have desired that closer union with Rome, which could only be brought about by bringing Ireland under the power of a sworn son of the Church. 
• Two effigies, one an ecclesiastic, the other probably a layman, have been placed under two of the windows.