clergyn.

Brit.

/ˈkləːdʒi/, U.S.

/ˈklərdʒi/

Forms: Middle English–1500s clergye, Middle English–1600s clergie, Middle English clergi, cleargye, ( cleregie, cleregye), Middle English clerge, Middle English–1600s clargy, clargie, (Middle English clerigie), 1500s clargye, 1500s–1600s cleargie, cleargy, Middle English– clergy.

Etymology: < Old French clergie (12th cent. in Littré), clargie, feminine, literally ‘clerkship’, noun of state < clerc < clēricus cleric, clerk n. For branch I, the proper word was Latin clēricātus, Old French clergié, French clergé, masculine; but in Old French clergie was also used in same sense; and if any of the Middle English forms represent clergié, they cannot be distinguished from those that represent clergie. The regular phonetic representation of Romanic cler(i)c-īa , in Old French would have been, according to dialect, clercie (clerzie , once in Godefroy), clerchie : compare Provençal clercia , Spanish clerecia . Old French clergie was an assimilation of this to clergié , a word of earlier formation in which g was regular (clēricāt- , clerigāt- , clergāt- , clergiet , clergié ). The influence of the latter similarly appears in clergess , clergise , clergion . The occasional Middle English clerge , plural clergis (sense 2d) may possibly represent clericus: compare Provençal clerc, clerge.

I. The clerical estate or order: = modern French clergé.

†1. The estate or office of a cleric or clerk (in ecclesiastical orders); the clerical office. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > [noun] > office of

clergyc1440

clerkhoodc1449

clerkship?1488

ministration1550

ministry1560

clergyship1620

clericality1660

cassock1687

churchmanship1690

the cloth1709

clericature1725

clericate1869

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 81 Clergie or office of clerkes, clericatus.

c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 43 It behowuiþ vs clerks to not mishews þe sygnes of our cleregye.

1529 T. More Dialogue Heresyes iii, in Wks. 226/2 As he that is in the clergye noughte, is farre the worse because he is therein, so he that therein is good, is for his clergy very farre the better.

1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. (1634) iv. xix. 726 The Popish rasure ministred unto Clerks at the first receit of their Cleargie.

2. concrete. The clerical order; the body of men set apart by ordination for religious service in the Christian church; opposed to laity.Sometimes, in popular speech, used of the ordinary clergy as distinguished from bishops, etc., as in ‘the bishop met the clergy of his diocese’. Originally a term of the Catholic church, but also commonly used in those Protestant churches which have an ordained ministry. (As with similar terms, its application is often made a matter of principle.)

a. construed as collective plural.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > [noun] > collective

clergyc1275

clerkshipc1275

churchc1400

spiritualtya1402

spiritualc1410

spritualitya1450

spirituality1525

spiritalty1534

ministry1566

cloth1656

crape1682

clericalty1860

society > law > legal right > right of specific class, person, or place > [noun] > legal privilege or immunity > applying to clergy

clergyc1275

immunity1449

benefit of clergy1488

benefice of clergy1489

benefit of (his) clergy1511

book1537

privilege of clergy1588

society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > priest > [noun] > priests collectively

clergyc1275

priesthoodc1384

discreetnessa1450

discretion1486

sacerdosa1592

priestery1650

sacerdotage1860

c1275 Old Eng. Misc. 89 Symonye, Þat muchel del haueþ amerd of þere clergie.

1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (1724) 563 Of þe clergie at Londone..A conseil he made.

c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 28 Þe baronage & þe clergie were somond to Kyngeston.

a1500 (?c1450) Merlin vi. 97 On yoole even was assembled alle the clergie of the reame.

1529 T. More Dialogue Heresyes i. in Wks. 108/2 To put euery man to silence that woulde..speake of the fautes of the clargye.

1604 King James VI & I Counterblaste to Tobacco sig. A3^v Our Cleargie are become negligent.

1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. i. 14 The King of Spain..would be..Compell'd by his Clergy..to make new Demands.

1762 (title) Observations on the present state of widows and orphans of the Protestant clergy of all denominations in Great Britain and Ireland.

1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. i. 376 The people..are divisible into two kinds; the clergy and laity: the clergy, comprehending all persons in holy orders, and in ecclesiastical offices.

1765–8 A. Maclaine tr. J. L. von Mosheim Eccl. Hist. (1844) II. xvii. 221 The defects and vices of the Lutheran clergy.

1838 W. E. Gladstone State Relations with Church (1839) 259 The Presbyterian clergy of the Scotch church.

1845 S. Austin tr. L. von Ranke Hist. Reformation in Germany (ed. 2) I. 303 With the higher clergy of Germany.

b. as collective singular.

ΚΠ

c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 373 Þe clergye is ybonden by astate & office.

1483 Cath. Angl. 66/2 A clerge, clerus, clerimonia.

1659 J. Milton Considerations touching Hirelings 148 They affected to be calld a clergie.

1796 H. Hunter tr. J.-H. B. de Saint-Pierre Stud. Nature (1799) III. 480 An ambitious Clergy impoverishes it's People.

a1863 Whately in Sat. Rev. (1864) 9 July 58 The usefulness of a married clergy.

c. rarely, as numeral plural = clergymen.

ΚΠ

1850 J. H. Newman Lect. Diffic. Anglicans 184 Some hundred Clergy.

†d. In the last sense, clergies was formerly used.

ΚΠ

a1300 Cursor Mundi 27244 In scrift..enentes clergis seculers.

a1340 R. Rolle Psalter lxvii. 14 [lxviii. 13] Si dormiatis inter medios cleros..if ȝe slepe amange þe myddis clergis.

1481 W. Caxton tr. Myrrour of Worlde i. v. 22 In this manere were the clergies first founden.

1672 H. Dodwell in R. Baxter Answer to Mr. Dodwell (1681) 73 The united endeavours of above a Thousand Clergies.

e. Used of all members of religious orders.

ΚΠ

1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 214 I found the clergy in general, persons of moderate minds and decorous manners; I include the seculars, and the regulars of both sexes.

Categories »

f. regular clergy, secular clergy: see regular adj. 1a, secular adj. 1a.

†3. transferred. The priestly order in the Jewish and other non-Christian religions. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > priest > kinds of priest > [noun] > heathen (general) > collectively

clergya1400

a1400–50 Alexander 1509 Oure bischop [of Jerusalem]..iogis all þe iewis · & generall callis..Þan consals him þe clergy.

1578 T. Nicholas tr. F. Lopez de Gómara Pleasant Hist. Conquest W. India 273 Tlamacazque..one of the principallest of the Divels Cleargie there.

1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 14 The Druidæ (for so they call their Diviners, Wisemen and estate of Clergie).

1727 D. Defoe Syst. Magick i. iii. 74 Upon this comes Jannes and Jambres,..it seems the King's Court was not then without a sufficient Number of Clergy.

4. As a rendering of Greek κλήρος, and of κλήρων in 1 Peter v. 3; see quots.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > church government > laity > [noun]

sheepc825

herdc1000

layc1330

flocka1340

fold1340

clergy1382

temporalty1387

lay-feec1425

temporalityc1485

laity?1541

lealty1548

people1549

layperson1972

1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) 1 Pet. v. 3 Nether as hauynge lordshipe in the clergie [1582 Rhem., neither as ouerruling the Clergie; Tindale, Cranmer, the parisshes; Coverdale, the parishens; Genev., 1611, God's heritage].

1641 J. Milton Reason Church-govt. 52 The title of Clergy S. Peter gave to all Gods people, till Pope Higinus and the succeeding Prelates took it from them.

1643 J. Burroughes Expos. Hosea (1652) i. 159 You shall find in Scripture the people are called Clergy in distinction from the Ministers, and never the Ministers..from the people.

1736 S. Chandler Hist. Persecution 459 The words Clergy and Church are never once used in Scripture to denote the Bishops or other Officers, but the Christian people.

II. In sense of modern French clergie.

†5. ‘Clerkly skill’; learning, scholarship, science. Obsolete except in proverb (quot. 1699, 1822).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > scholarly knowledge, erudition > [noun]

learningc897

wisdomc950

witnessc950

lore971

clergya1225

wit1297

apprise1303

gramaryec1320

clergisea1330

cunning1340

lering1340

sciencea1387

schoola1393

studya1393

art?a1400

cunningnessa1400

leara1400

sophyc1440

doctrinec1460

mathesisa1475

grammarc1500

doctorship1567

knowledge1576

scholarship1579

virtuosoship1666

erudition1718

eruditenessa1834

Wissenschaft1834

savantism1855

scholarment1896

a1225 Leg. Kath. 538 I-cud of alle clergies.

c1320 Seuyn Sag. (W.) 62 I sal teche him than Of clergy more than ani man.

c1325 Metr. Hom. 101 That clergy That clerkes kalles astronomi.

c1440 York Myst. xx. 54 Be clargy clere if we couthe knawe.

a1533 Ld. Berners tr. Arthur of Brytayn (?1560) lxxx. sig. Xii^v The grete & excellent clergy that is in you.

1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue ii. iv. sig. Giv She chopth logyk, to put me to my clargy.

1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew at Clerk-ship An Ounce of Mother-Wit is worth a Pound of Clergy, or Book-learning.

1822 S. Smith Wks. (1859) II. 3/1 The old saying, that an ounce of mother wit is worth a pound of clergy.

a. Old Law. benefit of (his) clergy, also simply (his) clergy: originally the privilege of exemption from trial by a secular court, allowed to or claimed by clergymen arraigned for felony; in later times the privilege of exemption from the sentence, which, in the case of certain offences, might be pleaded on his first conviction by every one who could read. Abolished, after various earlier modifications, in 1827. Cf. neck-verse n.The ability to read, being originally merely the test of the ‘clergy’, or clerical position, of the accused, came at length to be in itself the ground of the privilege, so that the phrase became = ‘benefit of scholarship’ (sense 5, instead of 1).

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > church government > ecclesiastical discipline > court > legal process > [noun] > exemption from trial or sentence by secular court

(his) clergyc1300

benefit of (his) clergy1511

society > law > legal right > right of specific class, person, or place > [noun] > legal privilege or immunity > applying to clergy

clergyc1275

immunity1449

benefit of clergy1488

benefice of clergy1489

benefit of (his) clergy1511

book1537

privilege of clergy1588

c1300 Beket 371 A preost ther was..That of manslaȝt was bicliped..Me acusede him faste of the dethe: ac he..huld him faste to holi churche..Iloked he was to purgi him thurf clergie if he miȝte.

1511 Act 3 Hen. VIII c. 5 That..he..so offending (not being within orders of holy church) enioie not the benefite of his clergie.

1601 A. Munday & H. Chettle Death Earle of Huntington sig. C4 Stand to your Cleargie vnkle, saue your life.

1623 Act 21 Jas. I c. 6 Preamble By the Laws of this Realm the Benefit of Clergy is not allowed to Women convicted of Felony.

1629 Vse of Law 47 in J. Doddridge Lawyers Light Praying his clergy, and thereupon reading as a clerke.

1631 R. Brathwait Whimzies ix. 69 If any..be admitted to his Clergy, and by helpe of a compassionate Prompter, hacke out his Necke-verse.

1670 T. Blount Νομο-λεξικον: Law-dict. (at cited word) By the Statute of 18 Eliz. cap. 7 Clerks are no more delivered to their Ordinaries to be purged, but now every Man, to whom this benefit is granted, though not in Orders, is put to read at the Bar, after he is found guilty, and convicted of such Felony, and so burnt in the hand, and set free for the first time, if the Ordinaries Commissioner or Deputy standing by do say—Legit ut Clericus.

1671 A. Marvell Let. 12 Jan. in Poems & Lett. (1971) II. 126 Such a clause..makes it felony without Clergy.

1697 London Gaz. No. 3304/3 Craving the Benefit of his Clergy..he was Burnt in the Hand.

1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations II. v. i. 349 [The] members [of the universities], whether masters or students, had all of them what was then called the benefit of clergy, that is, were exempted from the civil jurisdiction..and were amenable only to the ecclesiastical tribunals.

1864 C. Knight Passages Working Life I. 204 Then [1818] the Crier of the Court called out to the Convict, ‘kneel down and pray your Clergy’.

b. clergy of belly n. ‘respite claimed by a pregnant woman’ (Davies).

ΚΠ

1678 S. Butler Hudibras: Third Pt. iii. i. 51 Who therefore, in a strait, may freely Demand the Clergy of her Belly.

Compounds

C1. attributive or as adj. Belonging to the clergy, clerical.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > [adjective]

rulerc1390

reverent1398

ruly?c1450

ecclesiasticala1538

ministerial1561

clerical1592

ecclesiastic1603

cleric1623

reverend1625

clergical1632

clergya1635

hieratical1656

churchmanlike1786

shovel-hatted1832

churchmanly1833

hieratic1866

a1635 R. Corbet Iter Boreale in Certain Elegant Poems (1647) 1 A noble cleargy host, Kitt Middleton.

1670 I. Walton Life R. Hooker 46 in Lives She [Q. Elizabeth] eased Her self, by laying the burthen of all her Clergy-cares upon his [Abp. Whitgift's] shoulders.

C2. General attributive.

clergy-mender n.

ΚΠ

1670 J. Eachard Grounds Contempt of Clergy Pref. sig. A5 An infinite number of Church and Clergy-Menders.

clergy-priest n.

ΚΠ

1589 ‘M. Marprelate’ Theses Martinianæ (title page) With their whole band of clergie-priests.

clergy-profession n.

ΚΠ

1642 T. Fuller Holy State iv. xvii. 329 Nor suits it with my Clergy-profession to proceed any further in this warlike description.

clergy-relation n.

clergy-right n.

ΚΠ

1641 J. Milton Reason Church-govt. 55 That Priestly unction and Clergy-right whereto Christ hath entitl'd him.

† clergy stickler n. Obsolete

ΚΠ

1642 T. Fuller Holy State v. xviii Those clergy-sticklers.

clergy-tailor n.

ΚΠ

1708 P. A. Motteux Wks. F. Rabelais (1737) v. 215 Clergy-Taylors, Wafer-makers.

C3.

† clergy-feme n. Obsolete a clergyman's wife or woman.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > [noun] > wife of

clergy-feme1589

clergywoman1820

1589 W. Warner Albions Eng. (new ed.) vi. xxxi. 136 How fine and fayre a life our Clergie-Femes inioye.

clergy-house n. the residence of a clergyman; also, a house of residence for all the clergy having sole or subordinate charge of a living.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > artefacts > clerical residence (general) > [noun]

mansion1444

manse1534

mansion house1546

glebe-house1645

presbytère1734

presbytery1825

parochial house1829

clergy-house1865

1865 G. E. Street Town Ch. in Englishman's Mag. Feb. 125 The Church..would..be rendered..more striking by the group of subordinate buildings—clergy-house, house for the choir-boys and masters, etc.

1874 J. T. Micklethwaite Mod. Parish Churches 25 When the clergy-house is close to the church.

Derivatives

† ˈclergy'd adj. Obsolete provided with clergy.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > [adjective] > having

clergy'd1696

1696 W. Stephens Acct. Growth of Deism in Eng. 31 Christians embodied, organized, clergy'd and modelled into a National Church.

clergy-like adj.

ΚΠ

1632 in S. R. Gardiner Rep. Cases Star Chamber & High Comm. (1886) 173 In as clergie-like and church-like manner as maie be.

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单词	clergy
释义	clergyn. Brit. /ˈkləːdʒi/, U.S. /ˈklərdʒi/ Forms: Middle English–1500s clergye, Middle English–1600s clergie, Middle English clergi, cleargye, ( cleregie, cleregye), Middle English clerge, Middle English–1600s clargy, clargie, (Middle English clerigie), 1500s clargye, 1500s–1600s cleargie, cleargy, Middle English– clergy. Etymology: < Old French clergie (12th cent. in Littré), clargie, feminine, literally ‘clerkship’, noun of state < clerc < clēricus cleric, clerk n. For branch I, the proper word was Latin clēricātus, Old French clergié, French clergé, masculine; but in Old French clergie was also used in same sense; and if any of the Middle English forms represent clergié, they cannot be distinguished from those that represent clergie. The regular phonetic representation of Romanic cler(i)c-īa , in Old French would have been, according to dialect, clercie (clerzie , once in Godefroy), clerchie : compare Provençal clercia , Spanish clerecia . Old French clergie was an assimilation of this to clergié , a word of earlier formation in which g was regular (clēricāt- , clerigāt- , clergāt- , clergiet , clergié ). The influence of the latter similarly appears in clergess , clergise , clergion . The occasional Middle English clerge , plural clergis (sense 2d) may possibly represent clericus: compare Provençal clerc, clerge. I. The clerical estate or order: = modern French clergé. †1. The estate or office of a cleric or clerk (in ecclesiastical orders); the clerical office. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > [noun] > office of clergyc1440 clerkhoodc1449 clerkship?1488 ministration1550 ministry1560 clergyship1620 clericality1660 cassock1687 churchmanship1690 the cloth1709 clericature1725 clericate1869 c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 81 Clergie or office of clerkes, clericatus. c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 43 It behowuiþ vs clerks to not mishews þe sygnes of our cleregye. 1529 T. More Dialogue Heresyes iii, in Wks. 226/2 As he that is in the clergye noughte, is farre the worse because he is therein, so he that therein is good, is for his clergy very farre the better. 1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. (1634) iv. xix. 726 The Popish rasure ministred unto Clerks at the first receit of their Cleargie. 2. concrete. The clerical order; the body of men set apart by ordination for religious service in the Christian church; opposed to laity.Sometimes, in popular speech, used of the ordinary clergy as distinguished from bishops, etc., as in ‘the bishop met the clergy of his diocese’. Originally a term of the Catholic church, but also commonly used in those Protestant churches which have an ordained ministry. (As with similar terms, its application is often made a matter of principle.) a. construed as collective plural. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > [noun] > collective clergyc1275 clerkshipc1275 churchc1400 spiritualtya1402 spiritualc1410 spritualitya1450 spirituality1525 spiritalty1534 ministry1566 cloth1656 crape1682 clericalty1860 society > law > legal right > right of specific class, person, or place > [noun] > legal privilege or immunity > applying to clergy clergyc1275 immunity1449 benefit of clergy1488 benefice of clergy1489 benefit of (his) clergy1511 book1537 privilege of clergy1588 society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > priest > [noun] > priests collectively clergyc1275 priesthoodc1384 discreetnessa1450 discretion1486 sacerdosa1592 priestery1650 sacerdotage1860 c1275 Old Eng. Misc. 89 Symonye, Þat muchel del haueþ amerd of þere clergie. 1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (1724) 563 Of þe clergie at Londone..A conseil he made. c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 28 Þe baronage & þe clergie were somond to Kyngeston. a1500 (?c1450) Merlin vi. 97 On yoole even was assembled alle the clergie of the reame. 1529 T. More Dialogue Heresyes i. in Wks. 108/2 To put euery man to silence that woulde..speake of the fautes of the clargye. 1604 King James VI & I Counterblaste to Tobacco sig. A3^v Our Cleargie are become negligent. 1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. i. 14 The King of Spain..would be..Compell'd by his Clergy..to make new Demands. 1762 (title) Observations on the present state of widows and orphans of the Protestant clergy of all denominations in Great Britain and Ireland. 1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. i. 376 The people..are divisible into two kinds; the clergy and laity: the clergy, comprehending all persons in holy orders, and in ecclesiastical offices. 1765–8 A. Maclaine tr. J. L. von Mosheim Eccl. Hist. (1844) II. xvii. 221 The defects and vices of the Lutheran clergy. 1838 W. E. Gladstone State Relations with Church (1839) 259 The Presbyterian clergy of the Scotch church. 1845 S. Austin tr. L. von Ranke Hist. Reformation in Germany (ed. 2) I. 303 With the higher clergy of Germany. b. as collective singular. ΚΠ c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 373 Þe clergye is ybonden by astate & office. 1483 Cath. Angl. 66/2 A clerge, clerus, clerimonia. 1659 J. Milton Considerations touching Hirelings 148 They affected to be calld a clergie. 1796 H. Hunter tr. J.-H. B. de Saint-Pierre Stud. Nature (1799) III. 480 An ambitious Clergy impoverishes it's People. a1863 Whately in Sat. Rev. (1864) 9 July 58 The usefulness of a married clergy. c. rarely, as numeral plural = clergymen. ΚΠ 1850 J. H. Newman Lect. Diffic. Anglicans 184 Some hundred Clergy. †d. In the last sense, clergies was formerly used. ΚΠ a1300 Cursor Mundi 27244 In scrift..enentes clergis seculers. a1340 R. Rolle Psalter lxvii. 14 [lxviii. 13] Si dormiatis inter medios cleros..if ȝe slepe amange þe myddis clergis. 1481 W. Caxton tr. Myrrour of Worlde i. v. 22 In this manere were the clergies first founden. 1672 H. Dodwell in R. Baxter Answer to Mr. Dodwell (1681) 73 The united endeavours of above a Thousand Clergies. e. Used of all members of religious orders. ΚΠ 1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 214 I found the clergy in general, persons of moderate minds and decorous manners; I include the seculars, and the regulars of both sexes. View more context for this quotation Categories » f. regular clergy, secular clergy: see regular adj. 1a, secular adj. 1a. †3. transferred. The priestly order in the Jewish and other non-Christian religions. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > priest > kinds of priest > [noun] > heathen (general) > collectively clergya1400 a1400–50 Alexander 1509 Oure bischop [of Jerusalem]..iogis all þe iewis · & generall callis..Þan consals him þe clergy. 1578 T. Nicholas tr. F. Lopez de Gómara Pleasant Hist. Conquest W. India 273 Tlamacazque..one of the principallest of the Divels Cleargie there. 1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 14 The Druidæ (for so they call their Diviners, Wisemen and estate of Clergie). 1727 D. Defoe Syst. Magick i. iii. 74 Upon this comes Jannes and Jambres,..it seems the King's Court was not then without a sufficient Number of Clergy. 4. As a rendering of Greek κλήρος, and of κλήρων in 1 Peter v. 3; see quots. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > laity > [noun] sheepc825 herdc1000 layc1330 flocka1340 fold1340 clergy1382 temporalty1387 lay-feec1425 temporalityc1485 laity?1541 lealty1548 people1549 layperson1972 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) 1 Pet. v. 3 Nether as hauynge lordshipe in the clergie [1582 Rhem., neither as ouerruling the Clergie; Tindale, Cranmer, the parisshes; Coverdale, the parishens; Genev., 1611, God's heritage]. 1641 J. Milton Reason Church-govt. 52 The title of Clergy S. Peter gave to all Gods people, till Pope Higinus and the succeeding Prelates took it from them. 1643 J. Burroughes Expos. Hosea (1652) i. 159 You shall find in Scripture the people are called Clergy in distinction from the Ministers, and never the Ministers..from the people. 1736 S. Chandler Hist. Persecution 459 The words Clergy and Church are never once used in Scripture to denote the Bishops or other Officers, but the Christian people. II. In sense of modern French clergie. †5. ‘Clerkly skill’; learning, scholarship, science. Obsolete except in proverb (quot. 1699, 1822). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > scholarly knowledge, erudition > [noun] learningc897 wisdomc950 witnessc950 lore971 clergya1225 wit1297 apprise1303 gramaryec1320 clergisea1330 cunning1340 lering1340 sciencea1387 schoola1393 studya1393 art?a1400 cunningnessa1400 leara1400 sophyc1440 doctrinec1460 mathesisa1475 grammarc1500 doctorship1567 knowledge1576 scholarship1579 virtuosoship1666 erudition1718 eruditenessa1834 Wissenschaft1834 savantism1855 scholarment1896 a1225 Leg. Kath. 538 I-cud of alle clergies. c1320 Seuyn Sag. (W.) 62 I sal teche him than Of clergy more than ani man. c1325 Metr. Hom. 101 That clergy That clerkes kalles astronomi. c1440 York Myst. xx. 54 Be clargy clere if we couthe knawe. a1533 Ld. Berners tr. Arthur of Brytayn (?1560) lxxx. sig. Xii^v The grete & excellent clergy that is in you. 1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue ii. iv. sig. Giv She chopth logyk, to put me to my clargy. 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew at Clerk-ship An Ounce of Mother-Wit is worth a Pound of Clergy, or Book-learning. 1822 S. Smith Wks. (1859) II. 3/1 The old saying, that an ounce of mother wit is worth a pound of clergy. 6. a. Old Law. benefit of (his) clergy, also simply (his) clergy: originally the privilege of exemption from trial by a secular court, allowed to or claimed by clergymen arraigned for felony; in later times the privilege of exemption from the sentence, which, in the case of certain offences, might be pleaded on his first conviction by every one who could read. Abolished, after various earlier modifications, in 1827. Cf. neck-verse n.The ability to read, being originally merely the test of the ‘clergy’, or clerical position, of the accused, came at length to be in itself the ground of the privilege, so that the phrase became = ‘benefit of scholarship’ (sense 5, instead of 1). ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > ecclesiastical discipline > court > legal process > [noun] > exemption from trial or sentence by secular court (his) clergyc1300 benefit of (his) clergy1511 society > law > legal right > right of specific class, person, or place > [noun] > legal privilege or immunity > applying to clergy clergyc1275 immunity1449 benefit of clergy1488 benefice of clergy1489 benefit of (his) clergy1511 book1537 privilege of clergy1588 c1300 Beket 371 A preost ther was..That of manslaȝt was bicliped..Me acusede him faste of the dethe: ac he..huld him faste to holi churche..Iloked he was to purgi him thurf clergie if he miȝte. 1511 Act 3 Hen. VIII c. 5 That..he..so offending (not being within orders of holy church) enioie not the benefite of his clergie. 1601 A. Munday & H. Chettle Death Earle of Huntington sig. C4 Stand to your Cleargie vnkle, saue your life. 1623 Act 21 Jas. I c. 6 Preamble By the Laws of this Realm the Benefit of Clergy is not allowed to Women convicted of Felony. 1629 Vse of Law 47 in J. Doddridge Lawyers Light Praying his clergy, and thereupon reading as a clerke. 1631 R. Brathwait Whimzies ix. 69 If any..be admitted to his Clergy, and by helpe of a compassionate Prompter, hacke out his Necke-verse. 1670 T. Blount Νομο-λεξικον: Law-dict. (at cited word) By the Statute of 18 Eliz. cap. 7 Clerks are no more delivered to their Ordinaries to be purged, but now every Man, to whom this benefit is granted, though not in Orders, is put to read at the Bar, after he is found guilty, and convicted of such Felony, and so burnt in the hand, and set free for the first time, if the Ordinaries Commissioner or Deputy standing by do say—Legit ut Clericus. 1671 A. Marvell Let. 12 Jan. in Poems & Lett. (1971) II. 126 Such a clause..makes it felony without Clergy. 1697 London Gaz. No. 3304/3 Craving the Benefit of his Clergy..he was Burnt in the Hand. 1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations II. v. i. 349 [The] members [of the universities], whether masters or students, had all of them what was then called the benefit of clergy, that is, were exempted from the civil jurisdiction..and were amenable only to the ecclesiastical tribunals. View more context for this quotation 1864 C. Knight Passages Working Life I. 204 Then [1818] the Crier of the Court called out to the Convict, ‘kneel down and pray your Clergy’. b. clergy of belly n. ‘respite claimed by a pregnant woman’ (Davies). ΚΠ 1678 S. Butler Hudibras: Third Pt. iii. i. 51 Who therefore, in a strait, may freely Demand the Clergy of her Belly. Compounds C1. attributive or as adj. Belonging to the clergy, clerical. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > [adjective] rulerc1390 reverent1398 ruly?c1450 ecclesiasticala1538 ministerial1561 clerical1592 ecclesiastic1603 cleric1623 reverend1625 clergical1632 clergya1635 hieratical1656 churchmanlike1786 shovel-hatted1832 churchmanly1833 hieratic1866 a1635 R. Corbet Iter Boreale in Certain Elegant Poems (1647) 1 A noble cleargy host, Kitt Middleton. 1670 I. Walton Life R. Hooker 46 in Lives She [Q. Elizabeth] eased Her self, by laying the burthen of all her Clergy-cares upon his [Abp. Whitgift's] shoulders. C2. General attributive. clergy-mender n. ΚΠ 1670 J. Eachard Grounds Contempt of Clergy Pref. sig. A5 An infinite number of Church and Clergy-Menders. clergy-priest n. ΚΠ 1589 ‘M. Marprelate’ Theses Martinianæ (title page) With their whole band of clergie-priests. clergy-profession n. ΚΠ 1642 T. Fuller Holy State iv. xvii. 329 Nor suits it with my Clergy-profession to proceed any further in this warlike description. clergy-relation n. clergy-right n. ΚΠ 1641 J. Milton Reason Church-govt. 55 That Priestly unction and Clergy-right whereto Christ hath entitl'd him. † clergy stickler n. Obsolete ΚΠ 1642 T. Fuller Holy State v. xviii Those clergy-sticklers. clergy-tailor n. ΚΠ 1708 P. A. Motteux Wks. F. Rabelais (1737) v. 215 Clergy-Taylors, Wafer-makers. C3. † clergy-feme n. Obsolete a clergyman's wife or woman. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > [noun] > wife of clergy-feme1589 clergywoman1820 1589 W. Warner Albions Eng. (new ed.) vi. xxxi. 136 How fine and fayre a life our Clergie-Femes inioye. clergy-house n. the residence of a clergyman; also, a house of residence for all the clergy having sole or subordinate charge of a living. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > clerical residence (general) > [noun] mansion1444 manse1534 mansion house1546 glebe-house1645 presbytère1734 presbytery1825 parochial house1829 clergy-house1865 1865 G. E. Street Town Ch. in Englishman's Mag. Feb. 125 The Church..would..be rendered..more striking by the group of subordinate buildings—clergy-house, house for the choir-boys and masters, etc. 1874 J. T. Micklethwaite Mod. Parish Churches 25 When the clergy-house is close to the church. Derivatives † ˈclergy'd adj. Obsolete provided with clergy. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > [adjective] > having clergy'd1696 1696 W. Stephens Acct. Growth of Deism in Eng. 31 Christians embodied, organized, clergy'd and modelled into a National Church. clergy-like adj. ΚΠ 1632 in S. R. Gardiner Rep. Cases Star Chamber & High Comm. (1886) 173 In as clergie-like and church-like manner as maie be. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1225
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