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clergy(dictionary)
Clergy Reserves(encyclopedia)
BENEFIT OF CLERGY, English law(law)
Civil Constitution of the Clergy(encyclopedia)
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Linde (finance) and clergy (iou)


Linde (finance)


Linde is a top German corporation in the field of capital goods, and its estimated market value is 8,230 million US dollars.





clergy (iou)



clergy noun. ME.
[Partly from Old & mod. French clerge from ecclesiastical Latin clericatus, from clericus (see CLERK, -ATE1); partly from Old & mod. French clergie, from clerc CLERK noun + -ie -Y3, infl. by clerge.]
I.
Learning, scholarship. Long obsolete exc. in proverb an ounce of mother-wit is worth a pound of clergy. ME.
The state of being ordained to the Christian ministry; membership of a clerical order. ME-M16.
II. Treated as sing. & (usu.) collect. pl.
The body of all persons ordained to the Christian ministry. Opp. laity. ME.
b. Any priestly body. LME-E18.
In biblical translations and allusions [translating Greek kleros, kleron (1 Peter 5:3)]: the body of all Christians. arch. LME.
Phrases: benefit of clergy Hist. exemption from ordinary courts of law because of membership of the clergy or (later) literacy or scholarship; also (later), exemption from the sentence for certain first offences because of literacy. regular clergy: see REGULAR adjective. secular clergy: see SECULAR adjective 1. without benefit of clergy joc. without formal Marriage etc.
Comb.: clergy-house a dwelling-house for the member or members of clergy having (sole or subordinate) charge of a particular living; clergyman a man ordained to the Christian ministry, a priest; esp. an ordained minister of the Church of England; clergyman's sore throat, clergyman's throat, a chronic sore throat afflicting those who speak much in public; clergywoman (a) a nun; a priestess; (b) (chiefly joc.) the wife of a clergyman; (c) a female minister of Religion.
clergiable adjective (Hist.) (of an offence etc.) admitting benefit of clergy M18.