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[syn: clergyman, reverend, man of the cloth]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Clergyman \Cler"gy*man\, n.; pl. Clergymen.
An ordained minister; a man regularly authorized to preach
the gospel, and administer its ordinances; in England usually
restricted to a minister of the Established Church.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
clergyman
n 1: a member of the clergy and a spiritual leader of the
Christian Church [syn: clergyman, reverend, man of the
cloth] [ant: layman, layperson, secular]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
61 Moby Thesaurus words for "clergyman":
DD, Doctor of Divinity, Holy Joe, abbe, ayatollah, brother, canon,
cassock, chaplain, churchman, cleric, clerical, clerk, curate,
cure, deacon, dean, divine, dominie, ecclesiastic, evangelist,
father, friar, guru, holy man, imam, man of God, military chaplain,
minister, missionary, monastic, monk, padre, parson, pastor,
preacher, prebend, prebendary, predicant, presbyter, priest,
pulpitarian, pulpiteer, pulpiter, rabbi, rector, religious,
reverend, revivalist, sacristan, sermonizer, servant of God,
sexton, shepherd, sky pilot, supply clergy, supply minister,
the Reverend, the very Reverend, tonsured cleric, vicar
The Devil's Dictionary (1881-1906):
CLERGYMAN, n. A man who undertakes the management of our spiritual
affairs as a method of better his temporal ones.