cleric

Converse of subject

• write: The legend of King Arthur was based on the books written by the clerics of the Medieval era or the Middles Ages.
• lead: But it's not being led by the clerics.

Converse of object

• invite: For example, the Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, recently invited the cleric Yusuf al-Qaradawi to speak in the UK.
• appoint: Despite nothing coming of these overtures, neither the Diocese nor the Province were able to offer any concrete alternative to appointing another cleric.
• kill: They killed a cleric in Paktika Province with his wife at night, with a lady, they stabbed the lady to death.
• say: You look hot, my son, " said the cleric.
• become: Religious schools have been set up across the country to train young boys to become clerics.
• call: The main source of information about King Arthur and the Arthurian Legend was written by a Welsh cleric called Geoffrey of Monmouth.

Preposition: in

• city: Most of the Iraqi provincial leadership had known his father, who was a prominent cleric in the city.

Adjective modifier

• Shiite: Shiite Islamic clerics will play a pivotal role in Iraq.
• Islamic: Shiite Islamic clerics will play a pivotal role in Iraq.
• Saudi: Looking at Hamas websites, this very month, one finds Saudi clerics prominently featured as providing the religious justification for suicide bombings.
• fundamentalist: In Iran, the fundamentalist cleric Ayatollah Khomeini set out to restore a regime that had last existed almost 1,300 years ago.
• radical: He blamed radical clerics at the center of government.

Noun used with modifier

• century: The earliest reference to Ambrosius is in a tract called De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae, written by a 6th century cleric named Gildas.
• ruling: The Iranian people want greater liberty and the chance to vote for candidates not chosen by the ruling clerics.