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Clergyman
| cleric
| clerical
| clerical collar
| clericalism
| clericalist
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Clergyman
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun Clergyman has 1 sense
- clergyman(n = noun.person) man of the cloth, reverend - a member of the clergy and a spiritual leader of the Christian Church; Array is a member of clergy
is a kind of spiritual leader
has particulars: acolyte, anagnost, archdeacon, chaplain, churchman, cleric, divine, ecclesiastic, curate, minister, minister of religion, parson, pastor, rector, deacon, domine, dominee, dominie, dominus, doorkeeper, ostiarius, ostiary, lector, reader, officiant, ordinand, ordinary, postulator, preacher, preacher man, sermoniser, sermonizer, priest, shepherd, subdeacon, vicar, vicar, beecher, henry ward beecher, donne, john donne, john keble, keble, king, martin luther king, martin luther king jr., john wesley, wesley, charles wesley, wesley, roger williams, williams
Antonym: layman
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Clergyman, n.
An ordained minister; a man regularly authorized to preach the gospel, and administer its ordinances; in England usually restricted to a minister of the Established Church. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
Clergyman, n. (pl. -men) a member of the clergy, esp. of the Church of England.
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Clergyman
n. A man who undertakes the management of our spiritual affairs as a method of better his temporal ones.THESAURUS
Clergyman
DD, Doctor of Divinity, Holy Joe, abbe, ayatollah, brother, canon, cassock, chaplain, churchman, cleric, clerical, clerk, curate, cure, deacon, dean, divine, dominie, ecclesiastic, evangelist, father, friar, guru, holy man, imam, man of God, military chaplain, minister, missionary, monastic, monk, padre, parson, pastor, preacher, prebend, prebendary, predicant, presbyter, priest, pulpitarian, pulpiteer, pulpiter, rabbi, rector, religious, reverend, revivalist, sacristan, sermonizer, servant of God, sexton, shepherd, sky pilot, supply clergy, supply minister, the Reverend, the very Reverend, tonsured cleric, vicarROGET THESAURUS
Clergyman
Clergy
N clergy, clericals, ministry, priesthood, presbytery, the cloth, the desk, clergyman, divine, ecclesiastic, churchman, priest, presbyter, hierophant, pastor, shepherd, minister, father, father in Christ, padre, abbe, cure, patriarch, reverend, black coat, confessor, dignitaries of the church, ecclesiarch, hierarch, ebdomarius, eminence, reverence, elder, primate, metropolitan, archbishop, bishop, prelate, diocesan, suffragan, dean, subdean, archdeacon, prebendary, canon, rural dean, rector, parson, vicar, perpetual curate, residentiary, beneficiary, incumbent, chaplain, curate, deacon, deaconess, preacher, reader, lecturer, capitular, missionary, propagandist, Jesuit, revivalist, field preacher, churchwarden, sidesman, clerk, precentor, choir, almoner, suisse, verger, beadle, sexton, sacristan, acolyth, acolothyst, acolyte, altar boy, chorister, Pope, Papa, pontiff, high priest, cardinal, ancient flamen, flamen, confessor, penitentiary, spiritual director, cenobite, conventual, abbot, prior, monk, friar, lay brother, beadsman, mendicant, pilgrim, palmer, canon regular, canon secular, Franciscan, Friars minor, Minorites, Observant, Capuchin, Dominican, Carmelite, Augustinian, Gilbertine, Austin Friars, Black Friars, White Friars, Gray Friars, Crossed Friars, Crutched Friars, Bonhomme, Carthusian, Benedictine, Cistercian, Trappist, Cluniac, Premonstatensian, Maturine, Templar, Hospitaler, Bernardine, Lorettine, pillarist, stylite, abbess, prioress, canoness, religieuse, nun, novice, postulant, prophet, priest, high priest, Levite, Rabbi, Rabbin, Rebbe, scribe, mullah, muezzin, ayatollah, ulema, imaum, imam, sheik, sufi, kahin, kassis, mufti, hadji, dervish, fakir, faquir, brahmin, guru, kaziaskier, poonghie, sanyasi, druid, bonze, santon, abdal, Lama, talapoin, caloyer, the Reverend, the very Reverend, the Right Reverend, ordained, in orders, called to the ministry.
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