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clergy
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1200, clergie "office or dignity of a clergyman," from two Old French words: clergié "clerics, learned men," from Medieval Latin clericatus , from Late Latin clericus (see clerk (n.)); clergie "learning, knowledge, erudition," from clerc , also from Late ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Body of persons, such as ministers, sheiks, priests and rabbis, who are trained and ordained for religious service.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE catholic ▪ The concern of Roman catholic clergy about the system was not without grounds. ▪ The Catholic clergy is sincere in its opposition to all abortion, by whatever procedure. ▪ The Catholic clergy became more ...
Usage examples of clergy.
Ponchartrain wrote to the bishop of Quebec to increase his pay out of the allowance furnished by the government to the Acadian clergy, because he, Thury, had persuaded the Abenakis to begin the war anew.
They contend for a spiritual creed and a spiritual worship: we have a Calvinistic creed, a Popish liturgy, and an Arminian clergy.
To Yaguaron the higher clergy flocked to intercede for the good people of Asuncion, all except Father Truxillo, who, knowing something of his Bishop, did not go.
Apologia, and the touching allusion in it to the devotedness of the Catholic clergy to the poor in seasons of pestilence reminds me that when the cholera raged so dreadfully at Bilston, and the two priests of the town were no longer equal to the number of cases to which they were hurried day and night, I asked you to lend me two fathers to supply the place of other priests whom I wished to send as a further aid.
There was a public procession in which took part the canons of the cathedral church, the clergy of the town, secular and regular, all walking barefoot.
I knew, though Bonaparte was not aware of the circumstance at the time, that Chateaubriand at first refused the situation, and that he was only induced to accept it by the entreaties of the head of the clergy, particularly of the Abby Emery, a man of great influence.
Is it quite sure that New England Congregationalism would have been in all respects worse off if Channing and his friends had continued to be recognized as the Liberal wing of its clergy?
Presbyterian Church and the Congregationalist clergy of the little colony of Connecticut seems like a disproportioned one.
In no country with the exception of Czarist Russia did the clergy become by tradition so completely servile to the political authority of the State.
I suppose the leading Distributist among the clergy was Father Vincent McNabb and I have heard him called a Socialist a hundred times.
Nonetheless, he is correct about the modern clergy believing these opposing documents are false testimony.
But in an emergency situation, the clergy of the Roman diocese elects its own bishop.
The Inquisition was reinstituted, as were the privileges of the nobility, clergy, and military, and a heartless persecution was unleashed against dissidents, opponents, liberals, Francophiles, and former collaborators in the government of Joseph Bonaparte.
The Strasburg clergy, in losing him, wrote that he was unsurpassed among men, and the Genevese felt his superiority and put him on the commission which revised the Constitution.
With the Crusade underway at last, such travel is greatly restricted, and most of it is controlled by the Knights Hospitaler, which makes things especially difficult, for recently they have given preferential escort to clergy and other religious.