Definition of "churchman"

churchman

/ˈt͡ʃɜːt͡ʃmən/

noun
plural churchmen
1. (obsolete) A churchwarden.
2. A person (originally a man) of authority in a religious organization; a cleric.
3. A member or adherent of an established church, especially the Church of England.
  Quotations
  I replied, ‘I attended St. James's, St. Martin's, and St. Ann's, Soho;’—‘So,’ said he, ‘you are a churchman.’
  1789, Olaudah Equiano, chapter 10, in The Interesting Narrative, volume I
  Thus they say the king of Great Britain, must maintain episcopacy in England, and presbyterianism in Scotland, whether he be a presbyterian as king William, a Lutheran as George I. or a true churchman as his present Majesty.
  1791, Joseph Priestley, Letters to Burke, section V
  It was a brave sight on a Sunday morning to see those old Tottenhamites—each with his comfortable lady-wife on his arm—proceeding in their stiff Sunday best to the morning service; pitying the Quaker friends they met on their way for their incomplete and unenlightened faith—the Quakers, of course, pitying the Churchmen for theirs.
  1914, S. G. Tallentyre [Evelyn Beatrice Hall], “VIII. Realisation”, in Matthew Hargraves, London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, page 155