Definition of cleric
:a member of the clergy
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clerics were sharply divided on the issue of whether the war was morally justified
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Everybody played cards: kings and dukes, clerics, friars and noblewomen, prostitutes, sailors, prisoners.
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The district governor, Hadi Tamidi, said the incident occurred as a result of a dispute between the attacker and a cleric, IRNA reported.
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M. and M. followed the pattern of the three older churches — and most Greek Orthodox churches in the United States — by engaging an ethnically and culturally Greek cleric, Fr.
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Also widely popular among the devout is Dua 2017, a collection of hundreds of special prayers and dua, or supplications, read by leading Islamic clerics and imams.
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There was talk in the kingdom of opening cinemas and reducing the time stores are required to close for the five daily prayers, actions that would’ve directly challenged the conservative clerics.
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But rather than call Kim’s parents or contact the police, the shocked cleric turned to a higher authority, placing an urgent call to ABWE headquarters in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
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The man was being held down, beaten and kicked when Muslim cleric Mohammed Mahmoud stepped in to plead with people just to restrain him until police arrived.
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Others were frustrated that Finsbury Park was still stigmatized by the extremist history of its main mosque, which was once the haunt of radical Islamic cleric Abu Hamza but is under new ownership.
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Origin and Etymology of cleric
cleric Synonyms
Synonyms
clergyperson, clerical, clerk, deacon, divine, dominie, ecclesiastic, minister, preacher, priest, reverendAntonyms
layman, layperson, secularRelated Words
churchman, clergyman, father, Holy Joe [slang], padre; clergywoman, deaconess, priestess; abbot, archbishop, archpriest, bishop, dean, diocesan, monsignor, pope, prelate, presbyter; abbé, curate, curé, parson, pastor, rector, shepherd, vicar; chaplain, confessor, sky pilot; evangelist, missionary, missioner, missionizer, revivalist; friar, mendicant, monastic, monk, oblate, religious; high priest, high priestessNear Antonyms
lay reader, lectorCLERIC Defined for English Language Learners
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Definition of cleric for English Language Learners
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: a member of the clergy in any religion
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