Clergy Definition

klûrjē
clergies
noun
clergies
Persons ordained for religious service; ministers, priests, rabbis, etc., collectively.
Webster's New World

Body of persons, such as ministers, sheiks, priests and rabbis, who are trained and ordained for religious service.

Today we brought together clergy from the Wiccan, Christian, New Age and Islamic traditions for an interfaith dialogue.
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clergy
Plural:
clergies

Origin of Clergy

  • Middle English clergie from Old French (from Vulgar Latin clercīa) (from Late Latin clēricus clerk) and from Old French clergié body of clerks (from Vulgar Latin clercātus) (from Late Latin clēricātus) (from clēricus clerk, cleric)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Attested in the 13th Century CE; from clergie, from Old French clergié (“learned men”), from Late Latin clericātus, from Latin clericus (“one ordained for religious services”), from Ancient Greek κληρικός (klērikos, “of the clergy”).

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Clergy Sentence Examples

  • The clergy left the matter to the tsar's own decision.

  • Having refused to accept the civil constitution of the clergy, Dillon had to leave Narbonne in 1790, then to emigrate to Coblenz in 1791.

  • It became clear that neither the influence of the regular clergy, of which the Society of Jesus is the most powerful embodiment, nor that of foreign clerical parties, which largely control the Peters Pence fund, would ever permit renunciation of the papal claim to temporal power.

  • In the same way earls and barons must only be fined by their peers, and a similar privilege is extended to the clergy, who, moreover, were not to be fined in accordance with the value of their benefices, but only of their other property.

  • Several conventions guarantee the free communication of the bishops, clergy and laity with the Holy See; and this admits of the publication and execution of apostolic letters in matters spiritual.

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