Definition of man of the cloth Man of the cloth
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| man of the cloth - a member of the clergy and a spiritual leader of the Christian Church | ||
| clergyman, reverend | ||
| layman, layperson, secular someone who is not a clergyman or a professional person | ||
| spiritual leader a leader in religious or sacred affairs | ||
| clergy in Christianity, clergymen collectively (as distinguished from the laity) | ||
| acolyte someone who assists a priest or minister in a liturgical service; a cleric ordained in the highest of the minor orders in the Roman Catholic Church but not in the Anglican Church or the Eastern Orthodox Churches | ||
| anagnost a cleric in the minor orders of the Eastern Orthodox Church who reads the lessons aloud in the liturgy (analogous to the lector in the Roman Catholic Church) | ||
| archdeacon (Anglican Church) an ecclesiastical dignitary usually ranking just below a bishop | ||
| chaplain a clergyman ministering to some institution | ||
| churchman, cleric, ecclesiastic, divine a clergyman or other person in religious orders | ||
| curate, minister of religion, parson, rector, pastor, minister a person authorized to conduct religious worship; "clergymen are usually called ministers in Protestant churches" | ||
| deacon a cleric ranking just below a priest in Christian churches; one of the Holy Orders | ||
| domine, dominee, dominie, dominus a clergyman; especially a settled minister or parson | ||
| ostiarius, ostiary, doorkeeper someone who guards an entrance | ||
| lector, reader a public lecturer at certain universities | ||
| officiant a clergyman who officiates at a religious ceremony or service | ||
| ordinand a person being ordained | ||
| ordinary (heraldry) any of several conventional figures used on shields | ||
| postulator someone who assumes or takes something for granted as the basis of an argument | ||
| preacher, preacher man, sermoniser, sermonizer someone whose occupation is preaching the gospel | ||
| priest a clergyman in Christian churches who has the authority to perform or administer various religious rites; one of the Holy Orders | ||
| shepherd a clergyman who watches over a group of people | ||
| subdeacon a clergyman an order below deacon; one of the Holy Orders in the unreformed western Christian church and the eastern Catholic Churches but now suppressed in the Roman Catholic Church | ||
| vicar a Roman Catholic priest who acts for another higher-ranking clergyman | ||
| vicar a Roman Catholic priest who acts for another higher-ranking clergyman | ||
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