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Definition of Clerics
1. cleric [n] - See also: cleric
Lexicographical Neighbors of Clerics
Literary usage of Clerics
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Aver- bode Abbey: priests, 82; clerics and novices, 20; lay brothers, 36; of
these, 27 priests and 21 lay brothers have been sent to ..."
2. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"... surrendered its right to nominate Bishops; consigned criminous clerics to
ecclesiastical Courts ; granted free passage in the Adriatic to papal subjects ..."
3. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"Numerous synods of the sixth and seventh centuries prescribed imprisonment for
delinquent and especially for deposed clerics. Monasteries and (after their ..."
4. Monasteries and Religious Houses of Great Britain and Ireland: With an by Darley Dale, Francesca Maria Steele (1903)
"The mother-house was at Vourles. The clerics of St. Viateur direct public or free
schools, orphanages, and institutions for deaf- mutes. ..."
5. The Power of the Pope During the Middle Ages: Or, An Historical Inquiry Into by Jean Edme Auguste Gosselin (1853)
"This Power much more extensive with regard to clerics. ... He declares that
bishops cannot judge even clerics without their own consent, and by virtue of an ..."
6. Books and Their Makers During the Middle Ages: A Study of the Conditions of by George Haven Putnam (1896)
"The Ecclesiastical Schools and the clerics as Scribes.—The so-called secular
clergy were, during the earlier Middle Ages, employed very largely in ..."
7. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803: Explorations by Early Navigators by Emma Helen Blair, James Alexander Robertson, Edward Gaylord Bourne (1907)
"In order to justify their conduct toward the Filipino clerics, the friars resorted
to the pretext of their unfit ness; but not only is this argument ..."
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