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n. The body of people ordained for religious service. See Usage Note at collective noun.

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

n. The body of men set apart, by due ordination, to the service of God, in the Christian church, in distinction from the laity; in England, usually restricted to the ministers of the Established Church.

n. Learning; also, a learned profession.

n. The privilege or benefit of clergy.

n. A body of men set apart and consecrated by due ordination to the duties of public ministration in the Christian church; the body of ecclesiastics, in distinction from the laity.

n. The privilege or benefit of clergy. See below.

n. Persons connected with the clerical profession or the religious orders.

n. Learning; erudition.

n. Sometimes applied to the ecclesiastics, ministers, and priests of non-Christian religious systems.

n. in Christianity, clergymen collectively (as distinguished from the laity)

"But ascetics, nuns, and unordained members of religious associations of men were not originally in the ranks of the clergy, and, strictly speaking, are not so even to-day, though, on account of their closer and more special dependence on ecclesiastical authority, they have long been included under the title clergy in its wider sense (see RELIGIOUS)."

secular clergy   

priesthood   

secular clergy    benefit of clergy    white clergy    black clergy    regular clergy    divine right of the clergy   

clerk    cleric    clerical   

pastorate    prelacy    cardinalate    prelature   

clergyman   

learning    ministry   

lurgi   

priest    bishop    clergyman    nobility    magistrate    citizen    monk    scholar    prince    priesthood