clergymann.
/ˈkləːdʒɪmən/, U.S. /ˈklərdʒimən/ 1. † b. transferred. Applied to priests of non-Christian religions. (Cf. clergy n. 3.) Obsolete.
a. 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.)
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society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > [noun]
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reverend1547
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tippet-captain?1550
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clergyman1577
clerk1577
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umfundisi1825
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God-man1842
Pfarrer1844
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ecclesiastical1883
joss-pidgin-man1886
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sin-shiftera1912
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1577 M. Hanmer tr. Bp. Eusebius in Aunc. Eccl. Hist. v. xxv. 95 Not after the manner of a cleargie man, but of the laye people.
1577 T. Vautrollier tr. M. Luther Comm. Epist. to Galathians (new ed.) f. 260 The Papistes dreamed that this commaundement belongeth onely to their Cleargymen.
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III iii. vii. 95 Enter Rich. with two bishops a lofte. Maior. See where he stands between two clergie men . View more context for this quotation
1655 H. L'Estrange Reign King Charles 218 The House of Commons [voted] that no Clergy man shall be in Commission of the Peace.
1706 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1885) I. 164 A Benefic'd Clergy Man in Surrey.
1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 72. ⁋9 By a Clergyman, I mean one in holy Orders.
a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 193 A profound States man, but a very indifferent Clergy-man.
1831 T. De Quincey Dr. Parr in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. May 773 A writer of great talent, Mr. Foster, the Baptist clergyman.
1840 W. E. Gladstone Church Princ. 322 A well-known Presbyterian Clergyman, of Edinburgh.
1872 E. Peacock Mabel Heron i. iv. 65 Deep-rooted reverence for the clergyman of the Parish.
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society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > priest > kinds of priest > [noun] > heathen (general)
priestc1275
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clergyman1609
fetisheer1613
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shaman1698
Baal-priest1834
santero1950
1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. xxviii. vi. 346 Rusticanus a Prelat or Clergie man [L. sacerdotalis].
1693 N. Staphorst tr. L. Rauwolf Trav. Eastern Countries ii. ii, in J. Ray Coll. Curious Trav. I. 133 When their Clergymen [i.e. Dervishes] did understand it, they became very angry with us.
2. clergyman's sore throat: see quot.
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1882 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Clergyman's sore throat, the name given to granular pharyngitis when occurring in clergymen, and others, who use the voice much.
a1883 C. H. Fagge Princ. & Pract. Med. (1886) I. 805.
Derivatives
clergyˈmanical adj. (humorous), characteristic of a clergyman.
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1864 G. Dyce Bella Donna I. 196 One figure (arrayed in silken vestings and general clergymanical finery).
ˈclergymanly adj.
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1865 M. Oliphant Perpetual Curate in Chron. Carlingford 3 Two fresh, new, active, clergymanly intellects.
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