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Chaplain :: Chaplain (n.) A clergyman who is officially attached to the army or navy, to some public institution, or to a family or court, for the purpose of performing divine service..

Presentation :: Presentation (n.) The act of offering a clergyman to the bishop or ordinary for institution in a benefice; the right of presenting a clergyman.

Ecclesiastic :: Ecclesiastic (n.) A person in holy orders, or consecrated to the service of the church and the ministry of religion; a clergyman; a priest..

Charge :: Charge (v. t.) An address (esp. an earnest or impressive address) containing instruction or exhortation; as, the charge of a judge to a jury; the charge of a bishop to his clergy..

Ministry :: Ministry (n.) The body of ministers of state; also, the clergy, as a body..

Station :: Station (n.) A church in which the procession of the clergy halts on stated days to say stated prayers.

Kirkman :: Kirkman (n.) A clergyman or officer in a kirk.

Clerisy :: Clerisy (n.) The clergy, or their opinions, as opposed to the laity..

Immunity :: Immunity (a.) Freedom or exemption from any charge, duty, obligation, office, tax, imposition, penalty, or service; a particular privilege; as, the immunities of the free cities of Germany; the immunities of the clergy..

Pulpit :: Pulpit (n.) The whole body of the clergy; preachers as a class; also, preaching..

Callot :: Callot (n.) Such a cap, worn by the clergy of the Roman Catholic Church..

Intrusionist :: Intrusionist (n.) One who intrudes; especially, one who favors the appointment of a clergyman to a parish, by a patron, against the wishes of the parishioners..

Laity :: Laity (a.) The people, as distinguished from the clergy; the body of the people not in orders..

Prelate :: Prelate (n.) A clergyman of a superior order, as an archbishop or a bishop, having authority over the lower clergy; a dignitary of the church..

Litany :: Litany (n.) A solemn form of supplication in the public worship of various churches, in which the clergy and congregation join, the former leading and the latter responding in alternate sentences. It is usually of a penitential character..

Parson :: Parson (n.) Any clergyman having ecclesiastical preferment; one who is in orders, or is licensed to preach; a preacher..

Rector :: Rector (n.) A clergyman in charge of a parish.

Presentative :: Presentative (a.) Admitting the presentation of a clergyman; as, a presentative parsonage..

Interdict :: Interdict (n.) A prohibition of the pope, by which the clergy or laymen are restrained from performing, or from attending, divine service, or from administering the offices or enjoying the privileges of the church..

Layman :: Layman (n.) One of the people, in distinction from the clergy; one of the laity; sometimes, a man not belonging to some particular profession, in distinction from those who do..

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