(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.
Deacon
Definition:
(n.) An officer in Christian churches appointed to perform certain subordinate duties varying in different communions. In the Roman Catholic and Episcopal churches, a person admitted to the lowest order in the ministry, subordinate to the bishops and priests. In Presbyterian churches, he is subordinate to the minister and elders, and has charge of certain duties connected with the communion service and the care of the poor. In Congregational churches, he is subordinate to the pastor, and has duties as in the Presbyterian church.
(n.) The chairman of an incorporated company.
(v. t.) To read aloud each line of (a psalm or hymn) before singing it, -- usually with off.
Example Sentences:
(1) The two fish ponds, bakery and chicken farm that used to be the pride and joy of its chief deacon, Barrisa Tete Dooh, lie abandoned, covered in a thick black layer.
(2) It means the church has adopted a position which maintains a traditional view of marriage between a man and woman, but allows individual congregations to “opt out” if they wish to appoint a minister or a deacon in a same-sex civil partnership.
(3) The Church of Scotland has voted in favour of allowing people in same-sex civil partnerships to be called as ministers and deacons.
(4) That’s where we as a country were 50 years ago, as civil rights organizers prepared to march the 54 miles from Selma to Montgomery to honor the recently slain church deacon Jimmie Lee Jackson and all the other nonviolent activists shot and killed by police and white vigilantes.
(5) After the concert, which also included performances from Immortal Technique, Das Racist and Dan Deacon, thousands of protesters marched south down Broadway, closed to traffic by the police, to the financial district.
(6) The first comprised 70 white and 365 black adult smokers seen at the Deaconness Family Medicine Center located in Buffalo, NY.
(7) It turns out that they were all previously at Deacon's.
(8) Clement is Vladislav, an 862-year-old ladykiller, Waititi is Viago, a 379-year-old people-pleaser, and they’re joined by Petyr (Ben Fransham), an 8,000-year-old Nosferatu-like misanthropist and Deacon (Jonathan Brugh), an ex-Nazi vampire who, at just 183 years of age, is a bit gauche.
(9) Jonathan Deacon, a business expert at University of Wales said the collapse of Peacocks could be hugely damaging to the country.
(10) A report from the Theological Forum, ordered by last year’s assembly, concluded there were not “sufficient theological grounds to deny nominated individual ministers and deacons the authority to preside at same-sex marriages”.
(11) Thomas Deacon Academy, for example, has been formed from three schools, one of which - Deacon's - was highly desirable, while the others were less successful.
(12) As well as the many works by artists few people have heard of, there will be works by higher profile names, with the sculptor Cornelia Parker, curating a room based on the theme of black and white, inviting contributions from Michael Craig-Martin, Richard Deacon, Tacita Dean, Martin Creed, Jeremy Deller, Mona Hatoum, David Shrigley, Christian Marclay and last year's Turner Prize winner, Laure Prouvost.
(13) Michael Deacon (@MichaelPDeacon) Osborne: being an MP in Cheshire "opened my eyes" to the north.
(14) Some 50 per cent of the pupils came from Deacon's and inevitably their dominance has affected the atmosphere.
(15) Her first show, Objects and Sculpture (1981), included work by Bill Woodrow, Richard Deacon, Anish Kapoor and Antony Gormley.
(16) With Queen (Brian May – guitar, John Deacon – bass, Roger Taylor – drums) he's had four years to survey the scene and build up the frenzied grassroots following which left him impervious to the lack of affection in other quarters.
(17) To investigate the cardiac muscle damage observed in pheochromocytoma, New England Deaconness Hospital rats were implanted subcutaneously with a transplantable pheochromocytoma.
(18) She became a deacon at St Martin in the Bull Ring, Birmingham, and has also served at St Aldate's Church, Oxford, and in the Old Ford parishes in London.
(19) He joined a local Presbyterian church, where Kelley became a deacon and their children played instruments at church events.
(20) Their driver, a cleric with the rank of deacon, was shot and killed in the attack.