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cleric

noun
/ˈklɛɹɪk/UK

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin clēricus, from Ancient Greek κληρικός (klērikós), from κλῆρος (klêros, “a casting lots, drawing lots”). Many officers at Athens obtained their offices by lot, as opposed to election (Liddell and Scott). Doublet of clerk.

  1. derived from κληρικός
  2. borrowed from clēricus

Definitions

  1. A member of a clergy.

    • Holonyms: clergy; see also Thesaurus:clergy

  2. A spellcaster class that receives their spells (especially healing) from their deity.

  3. Of or pertaining to the clergy.

The neighborhood

Derived

anticleric, anticlericalism, clericate, clericity, clericocracy, declericalize

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at cleric. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01cleric02clergy03priests04priest05clergyperson06minister07layperson

A definitional loop anchored at cleric. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at cleric

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA