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Cloth :: Cloth (n.) The distinctive dress of any profession, especially of the clergy; hence, the clerical profession..

Clergy :: Clergy (n.) Learning; also, a learned profession..

Profession :: Profession (v.) That of which one professed knowledge; the occupation, if not mechanical, agricultural, or the like, to which one devotes one's self; the business which one professes to understand, and to follow for subsistence; calling; vocation; employment; as, the profession of arms; the profession of a clergyman, lawyer, or physician; the profession of lecturer on chemistry..

Clerk :: Clerk (n.) A clergyman or ecclesiastic.

Revivalist :: Revivalist (n.) A clergyman or layman who promotes revivals of religion; an advocate for religious revivals; sometimes, specifically, a clergyman, without a particular charge, who goes about to promote revivals. Also used adjectively..

Allocution :: Allocution (n.) An address; a hortatory or authoritative address as of a pope to his clergy.

Spiritual :: Spiritual (a.) Not lay or temporal; relating to sacred things; ecclesiastical; as, the spiritual functions of the clergy; lords spiritual and temporal; a spiritual corporation..

Living :: Living (n.) The benefice of a clergyman; an ecclesiastical charge which a minister receives.

Chancel :: Chancel (v. t.) That part of a church, reserved for the use of the clergy, where the altar, or communion table, is placed..

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

Prebendary :: Prebendary (n.) A clergyman attached to a collegiate or cathedral church who enjoys a prebend in consideration of his officiating at stated times in the church. See Note under Benefice, n., 3..

Clergical :: Clergical (a.) Of or pertaining to the clergy; clerical; clerkily; learned.

Clergyman :: Clergyman (n.) An ordained minister; a man regularly authorized to preach the gospel, and administer its ordinances; in England usually restricted to a minister of the Established Church..

M :: M (n.) A brand or stigma, having the shape of an M, formerly impressed on one convicted of manslaughter and admitted to the benefit of clergy..

Imparsonee :: Imparsonee (n.) A clergyman so inducted.

Nonage :: Nonage (n.) The ninth part of movable goods, formerly payable to the clergy on the death of persons in their parishes..

Divine :: Divine (a.) A minister of the gospel; a priest; a clergyman.

Crape :: Crape (n.) A thin, crimped stuff, made of raw silk gummed and twisted on the mill. Black crape is much used for mourning garments, also for the dress of some clergymen..

Epistoler :: Epistoler (n.) One of the clergy who reads the epistle at the communion service; an epistler.

Regular :: Regular (a.) Belonging to a monastic order or community; as, regular clergy, in distinction dfrom the secular clergy..

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