rare. [f. CHURCH sb. + -ITE.] One of the church party; esp. a supporter of the or a church.
1811. W. Taylor, in Robberds, Mem., II. 352. Thus elementary instruction, like the offices of the state, will be confined, by a test, to the churchites.
1848. Clough, Poems & Pr. Rem. (1869), I. 135. The new High Churchites, who want to turn all the quiet people adrift.
