Clergy
Nouns
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clergy, clericals, ministry, priesthood, presbytery, the cloth, the desk. clergyman, divine, ecclesiastic, churchman, priest, presbyter, hierophant, pastor, shepherd, minister
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father, father in Christ
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padre, abbe, cure
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patriarch
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reverend
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black coat
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confessor. dignitaries of the church
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ecclesiarch, hierarch
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eminence, reverence, elder, primate, metropolitan, archbishop, bishop, prelate, diocesan, suffragan, dean, subdean, archdeacon, prebendary, canon, rural dean, rector, parson, vicar, perpetual curate, residentiary, beneficiary, incumbent, chaplain, curate
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deacon, deaconess
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preacher, reader, lecturer
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capitular
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missionary, propagandist, Jesuit, revivalist, field preacher. churchwarden, sidesman
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clerk, precentor, choir
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almoner, verger, beadle, sexton, sacristan
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acolyth, acolothyst, acolyte, altar boy
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chorister. [Roman Catholic priesthood] Pope, Papa, pontiff, high priest, cardinal
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ancient flamen, flamen
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confessor, penitentiary
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spiritual director. cenobite, conventual, abbot, prior, monk, friar, lay brother, beadsman, mendicant, pilgrim, palmer
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canon regular, canon secular
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Franciscan, Friars minor, Minorites
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Observant, Capuchin, Dominican, Carmelite
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Augustinian
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Gilbertine
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Austin Friars, Black Friars, White Friars, Gray Friars, Crossed Friars, Crutched Friars
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Carthusian, Benedictine, Cistercian, Trappist, Cluniac, Premonstatensian, Maturine
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Templar, Hospitaler
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Bernardine, Lorettine, pillarist, stylite. abbess, prioress, canoness
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nun, novice, postulant. [Under the Jewish dispensation] prophet, priest, high priest, Levite
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Rabbi, Rabbin, Rebbe
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scribe. [Mohammedan etc.] mullah, muezzin, ayatollah
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ulema, imaum, imam, sheik
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sufi
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kahin, kassis
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mufti, hadji, dervish
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fakir, faquir
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brahmin, guru, kaziaskier, poonghie, sanyasi
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druid, bonze, santon, abdal, Lama, talapoin, caloyer.
Adjectives
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the Reverend, the very Reverend, the Right Reverend
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ordained, in orders, called to the ministry.