Clergyman

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Clergyman \Cler"gy*man\, n.; pl. {Clergymen}.
     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.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  clergyman
       n : a member of the clergy and a spiritual leader of the
           Christian Church [syn: {reverend}, {man of the cloth}]
           [ant: {layman}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  61 Moby Thesaurus words for "clergyman":
     DD, Doctor of Divinity, Holy Joe, abbe, ayatollah, brother, canon,
     cassock, chaplain, churchman, cleric, clerical, clerk, curate,
     cure, deacon, dean, divine, dominie, ecclesiastic, evangelist,
     father, friar, guru, holy man, imam, man of God, military chaplain,
     minister, missionary, monastic, monk, padre, parson, pastor,
     preacher, prebend, prebendary, predicant, presbyter, priest,
     pulpitarian, pulpiteer, pulpiter, rabbi, rector, religious,
     reverend, revivalist, sacristan, sermonizer, servant of God,
     sexton, shepherd, sky pilot, supply clergy, supply minister,
     the Reverend, the very Reverend, tonsured cleric, vicar
  
  

From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:

  CLERGYMAN, n.  A man who undertakes the management of our spiritual
  affairs as a method of better his temporal ones.