(v. t.) That part of a church, reserved for the use of the clergy, where the altar, or communion table, is placed.
(v. t.) All that part of a cruciform church which is beyond the line of the transept farthest from the main front.
Example Sentences:
(1) Jack Colback’s free-kick was deep and when Fabricio Coloccini headed back, Chancel Mbemba nodded goalwards.
(2) McClaren also lost the defenders Chancel Mbemba and Paul Dummett to injury.
(3) Capitalising on Chancel Mbemba’s mistake, the substitute striker rounded Rob Elliot, who was to make a vital 90th-minute save to deny Cheikhou Kouyaté, before scoring with only his second touch.
(4) Chancel Mbemba and Fabricio Coloccini struggled to contain King, while the gritty Bournemouth midfielder Harry Arter ensured his side won the midfield battle on only his third appearance of the season.
(5) Children’s art is on display and in the granite church sunlight enhances the 1466 brass effigies of the serjeant-at-law Nicholas de Assheton, who died the year before, and his wife, Margaret – figures normally hidden beneath the chancel floor but revealed on this day.
(6) Watford nearly restored their two-goal advantage when Ighalo and Deeney combined adroitly but Chancel Mbemba’s splendid late intervention denied Deeney.
(7) Newcastle came close as Aleksandar Mitrovic and Chancel Mbemba threatened.
(8) Agüero saw a penalty appeal against Chancel Mbemba turned down (almost certainly correctly) after being very smartly played in by De Bruyne and Karl Darlow was required to make a superb save to keep out Jesús Navas’s curving shot.
(9) I hope that people can be reasonable and talk things through, and my track record shows that I am willing to make accommodations … but I won’t compromise principle.” Pope Francis journeys to Washington to begin historic US visit – live updates Read more That line-in-the-chancel position on some of the key topics dividing American Catholics today – especially issues of family and sexuality – has angered the Bay Area faithful and drawn national attention leading to unfavorable comparisons to Pope Francis.
(10) There was no real end product though, and Chelsea almost made their hosts pay for over-adventurousness in attack when Chancel Mbemba was caught in possession much too far up the pitch, creating a hole in central defence into which Cesc Fàbregas strode to bring a diving save from Krul.
(11) Lascelles will be suspended for West Bromwich Albion’s visit to St James’ on Saturday and McClaren lost two other defenders here, Chancel Mbemba and Paul Dummett, to injury.
(12) He joins Georginio Wijnaldum, Aleksandar Mitrovic, Chancel Mbemba and Ivan Toney through the door and McClaren will hope his arrival kick-starts their Premier League campaign following a draw and a defeat from the opening two games.
(13) Appropriately he began the decisive move exchanging passes with Ulloa and making an angled, offside defying run, before cutting cleverly inside Chancel Mbemba.
(14) Aaron Ramsey found Sánchez and he asked Danny Welbeck to chase a ball that he put in behind Chancel Mbemba.
(15) Damningly McClaren has been deprived of a fit specialist left-back for much of the season while Chancel Mbemba – an £8m buy from Anderlecht last summer and his best centre-half – appears to have fallen victim to the club’s injury jinx.
(16) • Advise you of any "incurred costs" including well-known ones like stamp duty or much more unusual charges like chancel repair liability applying to a few homes near churches.
(17) In Kinshasha, Crystal Palace’s Yannick Bolasie and the Newcastle defender Chancel Mbemba both played in DR Congo’s 2-1 win over Angola.
Clergy
Definition:
(n.) The body of men set apart, by due ordination, to the service of God, in the Christian church, in distinction from the laity; in England, usually restricted to the ministers of the Established Church.
(n.) Learning; also, a learned profession.
(n.) The privilege or benefit of clergy.
Example Sentences:
(1) The statutory age of retirement for clergy is 70, although vicars’ terms can be extended by his or her bishop.
(2) Already the demand for such a liturgy is growing among clergy, who are embarrassed by having to withhold the church's official support from so many of their own flock who are in civil partnerships.
(3) Telemarketers, accountants, sports referees, legal secretaries, and cashiers were found to be among the most likely to lose their jobs, while doctors, preschool teachers, lawyers, artists, and clergy remained relatively safe.
(4) One group of clergy had spent the evening marching through the west side, pleading with people to remain peaceful.
(5) The Irish people, once so willing to heed to the clergy, decisively determined that Catholic bishops possess little credibility these days when it comes to knowing what’s in the best interests of children.
(6) During most of the century, the clergy did not condemn abortion.
(7) A conscience clause, however, will allow individual clergy to opt out of conducting same-sex marriages.
(8) Clergy at St Paul's have been divided over what action to take against the protest.
(9) Cure The Violence does a great deal of public education, often in concert with local clergy, to organise communities against gun violence.
(10) Pemberton, a former parish priest and a divorced father-of-five, was one of dozens of clergy in December 2012 who signed a letter to the Daily Telegraph warning that if the church refused to permit gay weddings in its own churches they would advise members of their congregations to marry elsewhere.
(11) Although accompanied by his father to the meeting, Boland's parent was not allowed into the hearing between senior clergy and the boy.
(12) As the cathedral clergy in their golden robes snaked in their stately procession around the nave, with the choir all in white and the bishops in white and scarlet, the theatre still seemed moving enough.
(13) He went on to say: "We can't be certain about the direct link between bad weather and the gay marriage legislation" Some clergy are offering to bless same-sex marriages despite their bishops opposition.
(14) The Vatican announced in December that Francis had decided to set up the commission to advise the church on the best policies to protect children, train church personnel and keep abusers out of the clergy.
(15) Henry Barnes The clergy may not be entirely trustworthy This may not be big news to cinemagoers – sneering at religious types goes all the way back to DW Griffith's Intolerance – but Cannes boasts an impressively ecumenical approach.
(16) In the US, schools, AIDS activists, and clergy distribute condoms to prevent HIV transmission.
(17) The following research was conducted to find out the specific variables associated with state prison clergy counselor role self-perceptions.
(18) As political leaders, the black clergy were usually the primary spokespersons for the entire black community, especially during periods of crisis.” The roll call of 20th-century African-American leadership, from Adam Clayton Powell, through Martin Luther King to Jesse Jackson, shows that only a handful of prominent figures emerged outside of organised religion.
(19) Of all the senior clergy of the Church of England, she is arguably the least theatrical.
(20) Poland remains one of Europe’s most staunchly Catholic nations, although the clergy’s influence has been steadily eroded by more than two decades of democratisation and market reforms since the 1989 fall of communism.