Clergy

['klɜːdʒɪ] or ['klɝdʒi]

解释:

(noun.) in Christianity, clergymen collectively (as distinguished from the laity).

埃西手打--From WordNet

解释:

(n.) The body of men set apart, by due ordination, to the service of God, in the Christian church, in distinction from the laity; in England, usually restricted to the ministers of the Established Church.

(n.) Learning; also, a learned profession.

(n.) The privilege or benefit of clergy.

艾德蒙编辑

同义词及近义词：

n. Ministers, clergymen, CLOTH, body of ecclesiastics (in distinction from the laity).

手打:罗莎琳德

解释:

n. the ministers of the Christian religion as holders of an allotted office in contradistinction to the laity.—adjs. Cler′gyable Cler′giable entitled to or admitting of the benefit of clergy.—ns. Cler′gyman one of the clergy a regularly ordained minister; Cler′gy-wom′an a woman belonging to a clergyman's family.—adjs. Cler′ic -al belonging to the clergy: pertaining to a clerk.—ns. Cler′ic a clergyman; Cler′icalism undue influence of the clergy sacerdotalism; Cler′icate clerical position; Cleric′ity state of being a clergyman; Cler′isy the class of learned men scholars.—Clergyman's sore throat chronic pharyngitis.—Benefit of clergy originally an exemption of clergymen in certain cases from criminal process before a secular judge but later covering the first offence of all who could read.—Black clergy in Russia the regular or monastic as distinct from the secular or parochial clergy.

编辑:米考伯