clergy

Roget category 996

6. Words relating to the sentient and moral
› 6.5. Religious affections
›› 6.5.5. Religious institutions

#996. Clergy

noun

clergy, clericals, ministry, priesthood, presbytery, the cloth, the desk.
clergyman, divine, ecclesiastic, churchman, priest, presbyter, hierophant^†, pastor, shepherd, minister — father, father in Christ — padre, abbe, cure — patriarch — reverend — black coat — confessor.
dignitaries of the church — ecclesiarch^†, hierarch^† — ebdomarius [Lat.] — eminence, reverence, elder, primate, metropolitan, archbishop, bishop, prelate, diocesan, suffragan^†, dean, subdean^†, archdeacon, prebendary, canon, rural dean, rector, parson, vicar, perpetual curate, residentiary^†, beneficiary, incumbent, chaplain, curate — deacon, deaconess — preacher, reader, lecturer — capitular^† — missionary, propagandist, Jesuit, revivalist, field preacher.
churchwarden, sidesman^† — clerk, precentor^†, choir — almoner, suisse [Fr.], verger, beadle, sexton, sacristan — acolyth^†, acolothyst^†, acolyte, altar boy — chorister.
[Roman Catholic priesthood] Pope, Papa, pontiff, high priest, cardinal — ancient flamen^†, flamen^† — confessor, penitentiary — spiritual director.
cenobite, conventual, abbot, prior, monk, friar, lay brother, beadsman^†, mendicant, pilgrim, palmer — canon regular, canon secular — Franciscan, Friars minor, Minorites — Observant, Capuchin, Dominican, Carmelite — Augustinian^† — Gilbertine — Austin Friars^†, Black Friars, White Friars, Gray Friars, Crossed Friars, Crutched Friars — Bonhomme [Fr.], Carthusian, Benedictine^†, Cistercian, Trappist, Cluniac, Premonstatensian, Maturine — Templar, Hospitaler — Bernardine^†, Lorettine, pillarist^†, stylite^†.
abbess, prioress, canoness^† — religieuse [Fr.], nun, novice, postulant.
[Under the Jewish dispensation] prophet, priest, high priest, Levite — Rabbi, Rabbin, Rebbe — scribe.
[Mohammedan etc.] mullah, muezzin, ayatollah — ulema, imaum^†, imam, sheik — sufi — kahin^†, kassis^† — mufti, hadji, dervish — fakir, faquir^† — brahmin^†, guru, kaziaskier^†, poonghie^†, sanyasi^† — druid, bonze^†, santon^†, abdal^†, Lama, talapoin^†, caloyer^†.

verb

take orders etc. 995.

adjective

the Reverend, the very Reverend, the Right Reverend — ordained, in orders, called to the ministry.

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