Definition of clergyman

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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..

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Clericity :: Clericity (n.) The state of being 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..
Divine :: Divine (a.) A minister of the gospel; a priest; a clergyman.
Unbishop :: Unbishop (v. t.) To deprive, as a city, of a bishop; to deprive, as a clergyman, of episcopal dignity or rights..
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..
Clerk :: Clerk (n.) A clergyman or ecclesiastic.
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..
Response :: Response (n.) The answer of the people or congregation to the priest or clergyman, in the litany and other parts of 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.
Supply :: Supply (n.) A person who fills a place for a time; one who supplies the place of another; a substitute; esp., a clergyman who supplies a vacant pulpit..
Churchman :: Churchman (n.) An ecclesiastic or clergyman.
Rector :: Rector (n.) A clergyman in charge of a parish.
Dignitary :: Dignitary (n.) One who possesses exalted rank or holds a position of dignity or honor; especially, one who holds an ecclesiastical rank above that of a parochial priest or clergyman..
Blackcoat :: Blackcoat (n.) A clergyman; -- familiarly so called, as a soldier is sometimes called a redcoat or a bluecoat..
Candidating :: Candidating (n.) The taking of the position of a candidate; specifically, the preaching of a clergyman with a view to settlement..
Presentative :: Presentative (a.) Admitting the presentation of a clergyman; as, a presentative parsonage..
Elder :: Elder (a.) A clergyman authorized to administer all the sacraments; as, a traveling elder..
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..
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..
Collation :: Collation (v. t.) The presentation of a clergyman to a benefice by a bishop, who has it in his own gift..
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