About The Word Clergy
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Clergy Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Clergy?
[n] clergymen collectively (as distinguished from the laity)
Synonyms | Synonyms for Clergy: Related Terms | Find terms related to Clergy: See Also | cardinalate | clergyman | first estate | lords spiritual | man of the cloth | pastorate | prelacy | prelature | priesthood | reverend Clergy In Webster's Dictionary \Cler"gy\, n. [OE. clergie, clergi, clerge, OF. clergie,
F. clergie (fr. clerc clerc, fr. L. clericus priest) confused
with OF. clergi['e], F. clerg['e], fr. LL. clericatus office
of priest, monastic life, fr. L. clericus priest, LL.
scholar, clerc. Both the Old French words meant clergy, in
sense 1, the former having also sense 2. See {Clerk}.]
1. 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. --Hooker.
2. Learning; also, a learned profession. [Obs.]
Sophictry . . . rhetoric, and other cleargy. --Guy
of Warwick.
Put their second sons to learn some clergy. --State
Papers (1515).
3. The privilege or benefit of clergy.
If convicted of a clergyable felony, he is entitled
equally to his clergy after as before conviction.
--Blackstone.
{Benefit of clergy} (Eng., Law), the exemption of the persons
of clergymen from criminal process before a secular judge
-- a privilege which was extended to all who could read,
such persons being, in the eye of the law, clerici, or
clerks. This privilege was abridged and modified by
various statutes, and finally abolished in the reign of
George IV. (1827).
{Regular clergy}, {Secular clergy} See {Regular}, n., and
{Secular}, a.
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