Definition: 1. Clergymen collectively (as distinguished from the laity). 2. The priests or ministers of a religion, especially of the Christian Church.
Use 'clergy' in a sentence:
1. Most clergy, he argued, now prefer taking funerals. Perhaps.
2. All the local clergy are involved in the renewal movement.
3. But several recent cases have upheld the rights of clergy to appeal to secular employment tribunals.
4. The latter had even infected the clergy itself, and so had exposed the “human and institutional fragility of the Church”.
5. Members of the clergy are serious students of religion.
6. The language of everyday life was evolving in Europe and at a certain point in the middle ages it was really only merchants, aristocrats and clergy who could deal with Latin.
7. We were surprised when he announced he wanted to join the clergy.
8. A member of the clergy attached to a branch of the armed forces.
9. Such a voyage would reflect badly on his future prospects as a member of the clergy.
10. Clergy: the least worldly are reported to be the happiest of all.
11. Henry and Nancy are living together without benefit of clergy.
12. that is the nobility and the clergy, representing maybe less than half a million people,
13. On Buddhism Clergies' Property Rights& A Study of the Religious property rights.
14. Do your think these clergy colleagues of yours will eventually come out and support gay marriage?
15. If relatives don't solve the problem, they can go to the clergy. Or they can solve their problem with the elders of the tribe.
16. He's actually claiming that this poem had been prophetic, that Lycidas foretold the ruin of the clergy.
17. Family services, social agencies, or clergy.
18. A broad alliance of the clergy rushed out a statement lionising the assassin.
19. The clergy were having an argument about god's law.
20. The color of black is popular among clergies, and that is the symbol of power.
21. Luther put his principle which all Christian were clergy into equality in personality and religious service.
22. The military has accused the clergy of mixing religion and politics.
23. They were sons of the local clergy, of the officers at the Depot, and of such manufacturers or men of business as the old town possessed.
24. Mr Dinescu has said several senior clergy are proven collaborators, but he was holding fire for now.
25. Worst of all, such a journey would get in the way of him going into the clergy.
26. All the local clergy were asked to attend the ceremony.
27. Three estates under the king-the clergy,
28. Clergy members of many faiths have crossed the line with women and had children out of wedlock.
29. The clergy and members of the Chinese Catholic Church were not to be left behind.
30. The king tried to weaken the power of the clergy.
31. But this headnote goes a lot further simply than that: "And by occasion foretells the ruin of our corrupted Clergy."
32. Medical doctors, judges, college officials, military officers, and clergy are usually addressed with an occupational title, however.
33. I could heartily wish that more of our country clergy would follow this example.
34. The clergy remain divided on the issue of women priests.
35. Surprisingly, some clergy members aren't poor as church mice.
36. These proposals met opposition from the clergy.
37. Thus, his preaching was directed at not only the laity, but the clergy as well.
38. The clergy member performing the ceremony declared them husband and wife.
39. Many in the clergy supported the reforms proposed by the rebels.
40. But it also means the gradual end of the hallowed "parson's freehold" that can give parish clergy a kind of owner-occupier status.
41. Now it's starting to be used for particular kinds of clergy in the church.
42. Your primary-care physician or other health-care professional, clergy, friends and family members can make recommendations.
43. The school will train Muslim, Jewish and Christian clergy together.
44. For years, the Catholic Church in America has struggled to find new clergy.
45. Family services, social agencies or clergy.
46. We move up here, we take a right through the clergy area.
47. The Polish clergy use their influence to polonize the people.
48. Ordinary Roman Catholic priests are not members of the regular clergy, but monks are.
49. Clergy and laity alike are divided in their views.
50. Some of the clergy refused to acknowledge the new king's legitimacy.
51. The new proposals affect both clergy and laity.
