(n.) An ordained minister; a man regularly authorized to preach the gospel, and administer its ordinances; in England usually restricted to a minister of the Established Church.
Example Sentences:
(1) A case study is presented in which a maternity patient with a history of schizophrenia and pyromania informs a hospital social worker that she and her infant will live temporarily with a clergyman and his family.
(2) The police officer who walks a man around the block or fails to show up when called, the clergyman who advises a woman to go home and pray, the doctor who gently patches her injuries but avoids asking who inflicted them, all cooperate with the abusive man in several ways.
(3) News of the second site emerged shortly after the clergyman at the centre of the dispute about anti-capitalist protesters camped outside St Paul's broke a week's silence to defend the decision to close the cathedral.
(4) The original referred to the Rev JP Huddle of The Unrest Cure as a boring clergyman.
(5) John is in a long-term relationship with another clergyman, which he has affirmed is celibate.
(6) The treatment of Dorothy in The Clergyman's Daughter, adds Stock, "is similarly sexist, bordering on misogynistic".
(7) Indeed, there was a faint hint of the clergyman about Knuckles himself.
(8) There was certainly no whale when it came to the museum in 1873, bequeathed by Edward Kerrich, a clergyman, artist, and collector; the museum was probably much more excited by his oil sketches by Rubens, and drawings by masters including Albrecht Dürer.
(9) Cardinal Keith O'Brien , archbishop of St Andrews, the most senior Roman Catholic clergyman in the country, resigned over "inappropriate" behaviour in the past.
(10) Instead of ideological hoeing at Brook Farm, Hawthorne wanders, both in pen and person, through the old orchard, planted by a clergyman in his old age "when the neighbours laughed at the hoary-headed man for planting trees from which he could have no prospect of gathering fruit...
(11) Hebden, an Anglican clergyman, told the court: "The decision to pilot armed drones from Waddington makes RAF Waddington a war zone.
(12) Ehrlich has become the modern day equivalent of Malthus , the 18th-century English clergyman who popularised the idea that the number of people would eventually outstrip food production.
(13) She suggests a general conversation with the clergyman on the risks of housing transients as an alternative to silence or breach of confidentiality.
(14) The clergyman, who argues that Inwood unlawfully discriminated against him, told the first day of hearings at Nottingham employment tribunal how he felt after his permission to officiate (PTO) was revoked.
(15) "I do understand when people feel that this is inexplicable, and I can understand people being angry about it, because having spent years on a low income as a clergyman I know what it is like when your household budget is blown apart by a significant extra fuel bill and your anxiety levels become very high.
(16) This instrument is to the future doctor what the badge is to the policeman, the white scarf is to the pilot, and the reverse collar is to the clergyman ... a symbol of arrival at a goal, long dreamed of and worked for: we now knew we were accepted into the fraternity of medicine.
(17) I am a clergyman, but I was attracted to this job because I saw the way people died, especially as I lost my best friend and my wife also lost her best friend through this epidemic.
(18) The social worker, aware of the patient's history and concerned for the family, asks the patient for permission to discuss her problems with the clergyman, but is refused.
(19) John has a long-term relationship with Grant Holmes, another C of E clergyman, and the couple entered a civil partnership in 2006.
(20) Three priests and a former priest in Scotland have reported the most senior Catholic clergyman in Britain, Cardinal Keith O'Brien, to the Vatican over allegations of inappropriate behaviour stretching back 30 years.
Cleric
Definition:
(n.) A clerk, a clergyman.
(a.) Same as Clerical.
Example Sentences:
(1) He helped her cope when her mother and then her father, who had been an Anglican cleric, died in quick succession in 1981.
(2) Turkish police have stormed the offices of an opposition media group days before the country’s pivotal election, in a crackdown on companies linked to a US-based cleric and critic of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan .
(3) "Everyone calls him the Socialist Worker Padre," one bland senior cleric told me with a sly and dismissive laugh.
(4) Throughout his career he has continued to champion Crane, seeing him as the direct heir to Walt Whitman – Whitman being "not just the most American of poets but American poetry proper, our apotropaic champion against European culture" – and slayer of neo-Christian adversaries such as "the clerical TS Eliot" and the old New Critics, who were and are anathema to Bloom, unresting defender of the Romantic tradition.
(5) Even the most popular Shia cleric, Sayyed Mohammed Fadlallah , a man who has deeply affected the thinking of key Hezbollah leaders and cadres since the party's inception, now says in no uncertain terms that Shias and the country as a whole want to see, and should see, a strong Lebanese army as the nation's sole protector; and that the perpetually unstable confessional system must be ended as soon as possible.
(6) Minutes after David Cameron joined the attack on Wednesday by claiming Khan was close to a south London cleric, Suliman Gani, who “supports IS [Islamic State]”, Team Zac circulated a dossier alleging Khan’s links with convicted terrorists, homophobes, antisemites and hate preachers.
(7) The main works in the mine were classified as mining, dressing of ores, refining, and clerical work.
(8) Computerization of the instrument resulted in a decrease in staff nurses' time spent rating patients, improved accuracy of ratings, ease of auditing, improved management reports, and a decrease in clerical time.
(9) Appeal court judges say they will deliver their ruling before Easter on the latest attempt by the home secretary, Theresa May , to lift the legal block on deporting the radical Islamist cleric, Abu Qatada, back to Jordan.
(10) He was a self-proclaimed cleric, though he had no formal qualifications or any evidence to support his claims.
(11) The surge in violence comes at a time of heightened political tension as the preparations of the coalition government to step down and fight elections have been threatened by a religious cleric who plans to bring a massive protest march to the capital on Monday.
(12) "We see these new laws being adopted," said Obolensky, "and then many clerical representatives and nationalists say that LGBT people are sick and need to be healed.
(13) On the face of it, Giles Fraser is an unlikely looking cleric.
(14) Symptomatology was more frequent in female detergent workers than among the clerical staff but no difference among men in different jobs was noted.
(15) The people of Iran, the region, Israel, America and the world deserve better than a deal that consolidates the grip on power of the violent revolutionary clerics who rule Tehran with an iron fist.” Here’s what members of the Bush team have said individually about the deal, since its announcement on Monday and in the weeks that led up to the announcement: Paul Wolfowitz , deputy secretary of defense under George W Bush, on Fox News : A bad deal is much worse than nothing.
(16) The work-load of house officers could be reduced considerably by providing additional clerical and administrative support and a more widespread adoption of an extended role for nurses.
(17) Reasons for missing appointments included the patient forgot or was confused (7 cases), weather (5), transportation difficulties (5), clerical error (3), and refusal of further chemotherapy (1).
(18) His interviews with al-Qaida, won partly because of a family link through marriage to a radical cleric, had angered the US, which had depicted him as a member of al-Qaida's media arm, not as an independent reporter.
(19) When Desai and her colleagues walked out, they were not members of a union, but they soon joined the Association of Professional, Executive, Clerical and Computer Staff (Apex), which, along with the wider trade union movement, gave the Grunwick women considerable support during the strike, which lasted almost two years.
(20) Some of the women priests appeared to have sourced phone cases to match the colour of their clerical robes.