Clergy
noun
People who work in religious services, like priests, ministers, or rabbis.
The town's clergy held a special prayer service after the disaster occurred.
Often appears as...
- catholic clergy
- ordained clergy
noun
People who work in religious services, like priests, ministers, or rabbis.
The town's clergy held a special prayer service after the disaster occurred.
Often appears as...
- catholic clergy
- ordained clergy
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Religious Leaders
Clergy refers specifically to individuals leading or authorized to lead religious worship and ceremonies.
The clergy officiated the wedding at the cathedral.
Pro Tip 2/3Respectful Address
When speaking to or about members of the clergy, use titles with respect, like 'Father', 'Reverend', or 'Rabbi'.
Reverend Smith is a respected member of the local clergy.
Pro Tip 3/3Collective Noun
'Clergy' is a collective noun referring to the group as a whole; no 's' is added for the plural form.
Several clergy were present at the interfaith dialogue.
Pro Tip 1/3Religious Leaders
Clergy refers specifically to individuals leading or authorized to lead religious worship and ceremonies.
The clergy officiated the wedding at the cathedral.
Pro Tip 2/3Respectful Address
When speaking to or about members of the clergy, use titles with respect, like 'Father', 'Reverend', or 'Rabbi'.
Reverend Smith is a respected member of the local clergy.
Pro Tip 3/3Collective Noun
'Clergy' is a collective noun referring to the group as a whole; no 's' is added for the plural form.
Several clergy were present at the interfaith dialogue.
Pro Tip 1/3Religious Leaders
Clergy refers specifically to individuals leading or authorized to lead religious worship and ceremonies.
The clergy officiated the wedding at the cathedral.
Pro Tip 2/3Respectful Address
When speaking to or about members of the clergy, use titles with respect, like 'Father', 'Reverend', or 'Rabbi'.
Reverend Smith is a respected member of the local clergy.
Pro Tip 3/3Collective Noun
'Clergy' is a collective noun referring to the group as a whole; no 's' is added for the plural form.
Several clergy were present at the interfaith dialogue.
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Kary Mullis: Celebrating...
One thing, he put a bird in there, and he pumped all the air out, and the bird died. So he said, hmm He said -- he called what he'd done as making -- they didn't call it a vacuum pump at the time. Now you call it a vacuum pump; he called it a vacuum. Right? And immediately, he got into trouble with the local clergy
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The emergence of drama...
into crude and sometimes comic stories. The clergy intended to teach against immorality. How ironic, then, that the morality plays actually encouraged vices as more popular than virtues. By the mid-15th century, the church started to outlaw these performances. Town charters required that any theater
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The Khan Academy PIPE...
ask say a member of the clergy someone who could read what percentage of the population using is even capable intellectually capable of reading they might have said maybe 30 or 40 percent if you had a really really good education system we now know that that's that's not true it's wildly pessimistic
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My $500 house in Detroit...
Or clergy and teachers engaging in civil disobedience to block water shutoff trucks. It's organizations buying back foreclosed homes for their inhabitants or fighting misinformation on forced sales through social media and volunteer-run hotlines. For me, it means helping others to raise the beams
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Jeffrey Brown: How we...
going into the parks where they were, building the relationship that was necessary. A tragedy happened in Boston that brought a number of clergy together, and there was a small cadre of us who came to the realization that we had to come out of the four walls of our sanctuary
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The spear-wielding stork...
but never appearing at the same time. Over the following centuries, birds were said to morph into humans, plants, and even the timbers of ships. This last transmutation was especially popular with many Christian clergy.
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Rev. Tom Honey: How...
and ways of looking at life as part of what is a universal and global search for meaning. These ideas are well known in liberal academic circles, but clergy like myself have been reluctant to air them,
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What caused the French...
the Catholic clergy, and the nobles. The Third Estate, middle class merchants and craftsmen, as well as over 20 million peasants, had far less power and they were the only ones who paid taxes,
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3 ways to uproot a...
They battled police and hired goons to stop the theft of this forest. But fortunately, there was an uprising of support from the clergy, politicians, students and the general public,
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"MacGyver"-like Prison...
John Parsons in fact even the clergy was meeting with them and he's acceptance God and he wanted to change his life
Video examples
Kary Mullis: Celebrating...
One thing, he put a bird in there, and he pumped all the air out, and the bird died. So he said, hmm He said -- he called what he'd done as making -- they didn't call it a vacuum pump at the time. Now you call it a vacuum pump; he called it a vacuum. Right? And immediately, he got into trouble with the local clergy
Video examples
The emergence of drama...
into crude and sometimes comic stories. The clergy intended to teach against immorality. How ironic, then, that the morality plays actually encouraged vices as more popular than virtues. By the mid-15th century, the church started to outlaw these performances. Town charters required that any theater
Video examples
The Khan Academy PIPE...
ask say a member of the clergy someone who could read what percentage of the population using is even capable intellectually capable of reading they might have said maybe 30 or 40 percent if you had a really really good education system we now know that that's that's not true it's wildly pessimistic
Video examples
My $500 house in Detroit...
Or clergy and teachers engaging in civil disobedience to block water shutoff trucks. It's organizations buying back foreclosed homes for their inhabitants or fighting misinformation on forced sales through social media and volunteer-run hotlines. For me, it means helping others to raise the beams
Video examples
Jeffrey Brown: How we...
going into the parks where they were, building the relationship that was necessary. A tragedy happened in Boston that brought a number of clergy together, and there was a small cadre of us who came to the realization that we had to come out of the four walls of our sanctuary
Video examples
The spear-wielding stork...
but never appearing at the same time. Over the following centuries, birds were said to morph into humans, plants, and even the timbers of ships. This last transmutation was especially popular with many Christian clergy.
Video examples
Rev. Tom Honey: How...
and ways of looking at life as part of what is a universal and global search for meaning. These ideas are well known in liberal academic circles, but clergy like myself have been reluctant to air them,
Video examples
What caused the French...
the Catholic clergy, and the nobles. The Third Estate, middle class merchants and craftsmen, as well as over 20 million peasants, had far less power and they were the only ones who paid taxes,
Video examples
3 ways to uproot a...
They battled police and hired goons to stop the theft of this forest. But fortunately, there was an uprising of support from the clergy, politicians, students and the general public,
Video examples
"MacGyver"-like Prison...
John Parsons in fact even the clergy was meeting with them and he's acceptance God and he wanted to change his life
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Quote examples
Julianne Moore
American Actress
Travelling childhoods are a common theme among actors. Army kids, embassy kids, travelling salesmen, clergy. Thing is, you learn about behaviour, that different places are separated by behaviours which are culturally driven.
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Frederica Mathewes-Green
Author
The Orthodox hierarchy doesn't have the kind of power that high-ranking clergy do in other churches. There isn't even a worldwide governing board to hold all the various Orthodox bodies together.
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Jane Austen
British Writer
It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.
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Pete Hoekstra
American Politician
I'm not OK with clergy, students, and those of different opinions chanting and swearing, but it is their constitutional right.
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Rodney Stark
American Theologian
The more members of the clergy that are out there working to expand their congregations, the more people will go to church.
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Monica Johnson
American Writer
If you need help, look to clergy who do not spout their own beliefs but direct you in sincerity by using the Bible.
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Nikola Tesla
Inventor
From my childhood I had been intended for the clergy. This prospect hung like a dark cloud on my mind.
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John Hurt
British Actor
The clergy is in the same business as actors, just a different department.
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Benjamin Jowett
English Theologian
My dear child, you must believe in God despite what the clergy tells you.
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Rudyard Kipling
English Writer
An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
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Julianne Moore
American Actress
Travelling childhoods are a common theme among actors. Army kids, embassy kids, travelling salesmen, clergy. Thing is, you learn about behaviour, that different places are separated by behaviours which are culturally driven.
Quote examples
Frederica Mathewes-Green
Author
The Orthodox hierarchy doesn't have the kind of power that high-ranking clergy do in other churches. There isn't even a worldwide governing board to hold all the various Orthodox bodies together.
Quote examples
Jane Austen
British Writer
It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.
Quote examples
Pete Hoekstra
American Politician
I'm not OK with clergy, students, and those of different opinions chanting and swearing, but it is their constitutional right.
Quote examples
Rodney Stark
American Theologian
The more members of the clergy that are out there working to expand their congregations, the more people will go to church.
Quote examples
Monica Johnson
American Writer
If you need help, look to clergy who do not spout their own beliefs but direct you in sincerity by using the Bible.
Quote examples
Nikola Tesla
Inventor
From my childhood I had been intended for the clergy. This prospect hung like a dark cloud on my mind.
Quote examples
John Hurt
British Actor
The clergy is in the same business as actors, just a different department.
Quote examples
Benjamin Jowett
English Theologian
My dear child, you must believe in God despite what the clergy tells you.
Quote examples
Rudyard Kipling
English Writer
An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
Example 1 of 10
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