Similar words: energy, allergic, clerk, ruler, emerge, gallery, killer, dealer. Meaning: ['klɜːdʒɪ] n. in Christianity, clergymen collectively (as distinguished from the laity).
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121. The saintly Vicar of Keyingham, Philip of Beverley, who did much for local clergy, was venerated as a saint.
122. Nor was it the traditional and risible gaps between the spiritual duties of the clergy and their worldly preoccupations.
123. If by the Church you mean the clergy and the laity, the answer is no.
124. It was the corruption of the Roman Catholic clergy in medieval times that paved the way for the Reformation.
125. One grain of trouble would gall the clergy and the councillors like a pin under a saddle.
126. Not surprisingly, many gentry and clergy modified their public pronouncements accordingly, surviving both Parliamentary rule and the Restoration.
127. In 1294-7, it has been calculated, the laity and clergy together yielded £280,000 in direct taxes to the king.
128. Even while general knowledge of the virus advances, he said, many clergy are still in the dark.
129. He was welcomed by the local clergy and a great number of other leading figures in the community.
130. The humorists needed to find new caricatures for the clergy; the older, fox-hunting parson was replaced by fanatic young curates.
131. The concern of Roman catholic clergy about the system was not without grounds.
132. Seventy clergy in the Diocese publicly criticised the way it had handled the case.
133. However, the clergy formed a third stratum in feudal society.
134. As the movement grew, it eventually let to a division in the ranks of the clergy.
135. The ordination of women and treatment of homosexual clergy - both sensitive issues - may well cause rifts.
136. In 1696 he was arrested for signing and circulating an appeal for charitable contributions to relieve the extruded clergy.
137. Very high among Innocent III's ambitions was the improvement of the parish clergy.
138. The second excommunicated all clergy who did homage to laymen for ecclesiastical possessions, as well as those who associated with them afterwards.
139. The clergy, however, preferred to discuss these matters in provincial clerical synods where they governed the procedures and priorities.
140. And anyway the papers say there are lots of gays among the clergy.
141. The nobility of Savoy was also closely linked to the upper echelons of the clergy.
142. At Huntley village ground in Gloucestershire,[http://sentencedict.com/clergy.html] the Gipsies are playing their annual fixture against the county's clergy.
143. I had always wondered why the Catholic Church insists on celibacy vows for its clergy.
144. Clergy and senior officials with the mace outside Logie Kirk.
145. He saw the clergy, rightly as a hindrance to his plans for modernization.
146. The church itself became a two-class system: the ascetic monasteries versus the more worldly regular clergy.
147. It is very likely that a high proportion of the clergy in the tenth and eleventh centuries were hereditary clergymen.
148. Sometimes ingenious Bible expositors have led whole generations of clergy down obscure backwaters of scriptural exegesis.
149. He was in demand as a confessor, from a few parishioners, a few neighbouring clergy, a few old students at Lincoln.
150. Now the choir and the south choir aisle were empty except for the Chapter clergy and the cathedral policeman.