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cleric

[ US /ˈkɫɛɹɪk/ ]
[ UK /klˈɛɹɪk/ ]
NOUN
  1. a clergyman or other person in religious orders

How To Use cleric In A Sentence

  • I submit, therefore, that a great deal of thought and probably some experimentation are needed to arrive at the correct via media between clericalism and laicism.
  • The hostage-takers Bowden spoke with expressed little regret at their seizure of the embassy, but most, like Mirdamadi, lamented the role they played in cementing the repressive rule of the clerics. Into the Den of Spies
  • At college he had never (illis dissimilis in nostro tempore natis) cringed to the possessors of clerical power. Pelham — Volume 05
  • The ayatollah broke with Iran's clerical leadership and became a vehement critic, denouncing Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and calling the postelection crackdown the work of a dictatorship. Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz
  • His apparent heresy is not that of the smooth talking cleric, but the statistician specialising in the field of criminology.
  • Across the cleric's ascetic features a happy smile slowly and conqueringly spread. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 192-06-30
  • ( "Emblematic of this anticlerical mindset was the tendency to" laicize "the names of locations with two words of religious significance, by contracting them into one. Cristero Rebellion: part 1 - toward the abyss
  • In six units midwives spent time away from clinical areas performing clerical duties.
  • He suggested it was a clerical error. The Sun
  • Sales, filing and clerical work would be scaled back dramatically. Times, Sunday Times
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