[f. next; see -IST.] A student of ecclesiology.
1841. (title) The Ecclesiologist, published by the Cambridge Camden Society.
1847. Lady G. Fullerton, Grantley Manor, II. ix. 7. My uncle … is not, I believe, much of an ecclesiologist.
1884. G. Allen, in Eng. Illustr. Mag., Feb., 309/1. The swift is the better ecclesiologist of the two kinds, loving to perch his nest under the tall pinnacles of some cathedral steeple, yet the swallow, too, is fond of churches.
