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cleric
/ˈklɛɹɪk/
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What does cleric mean?
noun
- A member of a clergy.
- A spellcaster class that receives their spells (especially healing) from their deity.
adjective
- Of or pertaining to the clergy.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈklɛɹɪk/
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The official selected from the papers a scrap of newspaper cutting, which he handed across to the cleric, who read it gravely.
His friends now wondered at the cleric and very official-looking nature of his position.
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I went home to my grandparents for a few weeks, and afterward visited my relatives in Virginia until I joined Cleric in Boston.
For the soldier whose campaigns are over venerates his shield and arms, and grateful Corydon shows regard for his decaying team, harrow, flail and mattock, and every manual artificer for the instruments of his craft; it is only the ungrateful cleric who despises and neglects those things which have ever been the foundation of his honours.
On the one hand, it is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted His own son to die a bachelor regards celibacy as an actual sin, and on the other hand, it is obvious that the average cleric would be damaged but little, and probably improved appreciably, by having a wife to think for him, and to force him to virtue and industry, and to aid him otherwise in his sordid profession.