the cloth, the desk.
clergyman, divine, ecclesiastic, churchman, priest, presbyter,
hierophant†, pastor, shepherd, minister; father, father in Christ;
padre, abbe, cure; patriarch; reverend; black coat; confessor.
dignitaries of the church; ecclesiarch†, hierarch†; ebdomarius
[Lat.]; eminence, reverence, elder, primate, metropolitan, archbishop,
bishop, prelate, diocesan, suffragan†, dean, subdean†, archdeacon,
prebendary, canon, rural dean, rector, parson, vicar, perpetual curate,
residentiary†, beneficiary, incumbent, chaplain, curate; deacon,
deaconess; preacher, reader, lecturer; capitular†; missionary,
propagandist, Jesuit, revivalist, field preacher.
churchwarden, sidesman†; clerk, precentor†, choir; almoner, suisse
[Fr.], verger, beadle, sexton, sacristan; acolyth†, acolothyst†,
acolyte, altar boy; chorister.
[Roman Catholic priesthood] Pope, Papa, pontiff, high priest,
cardinal; ancient flamen†, flamen†; confessor, penitentiary; spiritual
director.
cenobite, conventual, abbot, prior, monk, friar, lay brother,
beadsman†, mendicant, pilgrim, palmer; canon regular, canon secular;
Franciscan, Friars minor, Minorites; Observant, Capuchin, Dominican,
Carmelite; Augustinian†; Gilbertine; Austin Friars†, Black Friars, White
Friars, Gray Friars, Crossed Friars, Crutched Friars; Bonhomme [Fr.],
Carthusian, Benedictine†, Cistercian, Trappist, Cluniac,
Premonstatensian, Maturine; Templar, Hospitaler; Bernardine†, Lorettine,
pillarist†, stylite†.
abbess, prioress, canoness†; religieuse [Fr.], nun, novice,
postulant.
[Under the Jewish dispensation] prophet, priest, high priest,
Levite; Rabbi, Rabbin, Rebbe; scribe.
[Mohammedan etc.] mullah, muezzin, ayatollah; ulema, imaum†, imam,
sheik; sufi; kahin†, kassis†; mufti, hadji, dervish; fakir, faquir†;
brahmin†, guru, kaziaskier†, poonghie†, sanyasi†; druid, bonze†, santon†,
abdal†, Lama, talapoin†, caloyer†.
V. take orders &c 995.
Adj. the Reverend, the very Reverend, the Right Reverend; ordained, in
orders, called to the ministry.