congregationalist

American  

[kahng-gri-gay-shuhn-uhl-ist] / ˌkɑŋ grɪˈgeɪ ʃən əl ɪst /

noun

1. a person, especially a member of the clergy, who adheres to congregationalism as a form of church government.

2. a member of any congregation.

3. Congregationalist, a member or minister of a Congregational church.

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adjective

1. relating or adhering to congregationalism as a form of church government.

2. Congregationalist, relating or belonging to the movement that gave rise to the Congregational or Independent churches in England after the Protestant Reformation.

Example Sentences

And since Morse was the son of a Congregationalist minister, it seems, on one level, unsurprising that he'd use divine rhetoric.

From Salon

“We realized we could not be complacent; we had to fight against that kind of bigotry and not discriminate,” said James White, who was pastor of the city’s First Congregationalist Church during the 1990s and opposed the discriminatory amendment.

From New York Times

Congregationalist minister Jonathan Mayhew found scripture to be teaching that “wise, brave and virtuous men were always friends to liberty.”

From Washington Times

The nuns at Dr. Farr’s Catholic school looked askance at Dickinson’s writings, Dr. Farr recalled, because Dickinson was a lapsed Congregationalist.

From Washington Post

Born in 1934, she was raised as a Congregationalist Christian in Britain during a period that included the Great Depression and the Second World War.

From Washington Times