CLERGY
\klˈɜːd͡ʒi], \klˈɜːdʒi], \k_l_ˈɜː_dʒ_i]\
Definitions of CLERGY
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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The body of ministers of religion: persons connected with the clerical profession or the religious orders. "I found the clergy in general persons of moderate minds and decorous manners; I include the seculars and regulars of both sexes."-Burke.
By Daniel Lyons
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The ministers of the Gospel, collectively.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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The body of men set apart by ordination for the service of religion in the Christian Church; the body of ecclesiasties in distinction from the laity. Benefit of clergy, originally the exemption of the persons of clergymen from criminal process before a secular judge, an immunity granted in certain cases to those who could read.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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The body of men set apart to conduct the service of God in a Christian Church; ministers of the Established Church of a country.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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