Cleric Definition

klĕrĭk
clerics
noun
clerics
A member of the clergy.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
adjective
Relating to the clergy or one of its members.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Cleric

Noun

Singular:
cleric
Plural:
clerics

Origin of Cleric

  • From Latin clēricus, from Ancient Greek κληρικός (klērikos), from κλῆρος (klēros, “a casting lots, drawing lots”), (Europe; many officers at Athens obtained their offices by lot, as opposed to election [Liddell and Scott]), from Proto-Indo-European *kald-, *klād- (“timber, log”), from Proto-Indo-European *kola-, *klā- (“to beat, hew, break, destroy, kill”).

    From Wiktionary

  • Late Latin clēricus clerk

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Cleric Sentence Examples

  • Deposition of a bishop by a synod, or of a priest or deacon by his bishop, is to take effect even pending an appeal, and a cleric continuing his functions after sentence in first instance is to lose all right of appeal.

  • Further, a cleric is bound to exercise the minor orders for a year before he can be ordained subdeacon, he must be subdeacon for a year before he is ordained deacon, deacon for a year before he is made priest.

  • The crime of "plurality," the holding by one cleric of two or more benefices, was especially attacked, as also clerical absenteeism and ignorance, and laxity in the monastic life.

  • Under the auspices of Archbishop Absalon the monks of Sorb began to compile the annals of Denmark, and at the end of the 12th century Svend Aagesen, a cleric of Lund, compiled from Icelandic sources and oral tradition his Compendiosa historic regum Daniae.

  • Of the facts of his life we know practically nothing, except that he was not a cleric but a "c scholasticus" or advocate.

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CCLCLE

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