 4 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
clergyman
noun: a member of the clergy and a spiritual leader of the
Christian Church [syn: {reverend}, {man of the cloth}]
[ant: {layman}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Clergyman \Cler"gy*man\, noun; pl. {Clergymen}.
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.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
61 Moby Thesaurus words for "clergyman":
DD, Doctor of Divinity, Holy Joe, abbe, ayatollah, brother, canon,
cassock, chaplain, churchman, cleric, clerical, clerk, curate,
cure, deacon, dean, divine, dominie, ecclesiastic, evangelist,
father, friar, guru, holy man, imam, man of God, military chaplain,
minister, missionary, monastic, monk, padre, parson, pastor,
preacher, prebend, prebendary, predicant, presbyter, priest,
pulpitarian, pulpiteer, pulpiter, rabbi, rector, religious,
reverend, revivalist, sacristan, sermonizer, servant of God,
sexton, shepherd, sky pilot, supply clergy, supply minister,
the Reverend, the very Reverend, tonsured cleric, vicar
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
CLERGYMAN, noun A man who undertakes the management of our spiritual
affairs as a method of better his temporal ones.
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