cleric
a member of the clergy.
a member of a clerical party.
clerics, (used with a plural verb) half-sized or small-sized reading glasses worn on the nose, usually rimless or with a thin metal frame.
pertaining to the clergy; clerical.
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How to use cleric in a sentence
As hardline cleric and Khamenei ally Mehdi Taaeb recently declared “we have now reached the stage for the purification of the Islamic Revolution.”
Why Iran’s Elections Are a Critical Turning Point for Khamenei’s Regime | Kasra Aarabi | June 16, 2021 | TimeNearly 600 people registered as candidates with the Guardian Council, a 12-person body made up of jurists and clerics who answer to the country’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Who Will Be Iran's Next President and What Does It Mean for the Region | Ian Bremmer | May 29, 2021 | TimeSupreme Leaders are chosen by a group of clerics called the Assembly of Experts.
Who Will Be Iran's Next President and What Does It Mean for the Region | Ian Bremmer | May 29, 2021 | TimeHowever, said Tia Noelle Pratt, a Villanova University sociologist who has studied the church’s handling of racial issues, the removal of a cleric is significant.
Tensions in the U.S. Catholic Church over abortion, race and politics come to a head in a Maryland classroom | Brittany Mayes | May 28, 2021 | Washington PostThe authors of these documents are as diverse as the locales, including military men, to be sure, but also adventurers, philosophers, doctors, clerics, explorers and revolutionaries.
The conflicts and characters behind the world’s constitutions | Tom Ginsburg | May 14, 2021 | Washington Post
Three years ago, Republican Guard soldiers came into the hills and killed a cleric accused of hosting Jundullah fighters.
The Dangerous Drug-Funded Secret War Between Iran and Pakistan | Umar Farooq | December 29, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBut he seemed on first encounter to be very gray, more a forgettable clerk than a firebrand cleric.
Why Pope Francis Wants to Declare Murdered Archbishop Romero a Saint | Christopher Dickey | August 24, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIn 1483 the princes were publicly declared illegitimate by a cleric.
Three Dicks: Cheney, Nixon, Richard III and the Art of Reputation Rehab | Clive Irving | July 27, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAnd the third was Mullah Adahdad, 45, an unarmed cleric who was attacked with a grenade and gunned down by several soldiers.
‘Kill Team’: The Documentary the Army Doesn’t Want You to See | Andrew Romano | July 26, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTComing from the Jordanian cleric, that condemnation is especially powerful.
Al Qaeda to ISIS: Get Off My Lawn—The Theological Debate Behind the Caliphate | Jamie Dettmer | July 9, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHis friends now wondered at the cleric and very official-looking nature of his position.
Sister Carrie | Theodore DreiserA cleric declares that he was at heart not a bad child but had been harmed by bad examples.
The Life of Ludwig van Beethoven, Volume III (of 3) | Alexander Wheelock ThayerThey send a messenger to the cleric, that water be brought to them in the field.
The Latin & Irish Lives of Ciaran | AnonymousIn a passion, he cursed the cleric, crying: 'As the minister of the devil, thou canst only guide to hell!
The Story of Seville | Walter M. Gallichan"Paint the soul, never mind the legs and arms," recommended the cleric in Fra Lippo Lippi.
The Book of This and That | Robert Lynd
British Dictionary definitions for cleric
/ (ˈklɛrɪk) /
a member of the clergy
Origin of cleric
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