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clergyman|ˈklɜːdʒɪmən|
Before 18th c. usually as two words, or hyphened.
1. A man of the clerical order; an ordained minister of the Christian church; one in holy orders. (In England, unless otherwise qualified, commonly meaning a minister of the Church of England.)
1577Hanmer Anc. Eccl. Hist. (1619) 94 Not after the manner of a cleargie-man, but of the lay people. 1577T. Vautrollier Luther on Ep. Gal. 260 The Papistes dreamed that this commaundement belongeth onely to their Cleargymen. 1594Shakes. Rich. III, iii. vii. 95 Enter Richard aloft, betweene two Bishops. Maior. See where his Grace stands, tweene two Clergie men. 1654L'Estrange Chas. I (1655) 218 The House of Commons [voted] that no Clergy man shall be in Commission of the Peace. 1706Hearne Rem. & Collect. (1885) I. 164 A Benefic'd Clergy Man in Surrey. 1709Steele Tatler No. 72 ⁋9 By a Clergyman, I mean one in holy Orders. a1714Burnet Own Time (1766) I. 269 A profound statesman, but a very indifferent Clergy-man. 1840Gladstone Ch. Princ. 322 A well-known Presbyterian Clergyman, of Edinburgh. 1858De Quincey Wks. V. 190 A writer of great talent, Mr. Foster, the Baptist clergyman. 1872E. Peacock Mabel Heron i. iv. 65 Deep-rooted reverence for the clergyman of the Parish.
†b. transf. Applied to priests of non-Christian religions. (Cf. clergy 1 b.) Obs.
1609Holland Amm. Marcel. xxviii. vi. 346 Rusticanus a Prelat or Clergie man [sacerdotalis]. 1693Staphorst tr. Rauwolf's Trav. in Ray Journ. Low C. (1738) II. 98 When their Clergymen [i.e. Dervishes] did understand it, they became very angry with us.
†2. St. Nicholas' clergymen (clerks): a cant phrase for ‘highwaymen’ (see clerk n. 6 c). Obs.
1589R. Harvey Pl. Perc. 1 A quarrel, by the high way side, between a brace, of Saint Nicholas Clargie men.
3. clergyman's sore throat: see quot.
1882Syd. Soc. Lex., Clergyman's sore throat, the name given to granular pharyngitis when occurring in clergymen, and others, who use the voice much. 1886Fagge Princ. & Pract. Med. I. 805.
Hence clergyˈmanical a. (humorous), ˈclergymanly a., characteristic of a clergyman.
1864G. Dyce Bella Donna I. 196 One figure (arrayed in silken vestings and general clergymanical finery). 1865Mrs. Oliphant Chron. Carl., Perpet. Curate 3 Two fresh, new, active, clergymanly intellects. |