cleric
IPA: kɫˈɛrɪk
noun
- A member of the clergy.
- (roleplaying games) A spellcaster class that receives their spells (especially healing) from their deity.
adjective
- (now uncommon) Of or pertaining to the clergy.
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Examples of "cleric" in Sentences
- I am afraid it is a clerical error.
- Clerics of Karaan are savage and depraved.
- The main function of the Kayasthas was clerical.
- He was one of the reformist cleric shiaas muslims.
- The clerics definitely are in the employ of the state.
- Earlier, it was the rite of tonsure that made one a cleric.
- The requirement of a clerical headmaster was removed in 1909.
- The instruments for regulating clerical behavior are the canons.
- In clerical naming, the first name was originally used as the key.
- Just as soon as another Iran cleric is caught with his pants down.
- They are also resistant to the turn and rebuke attempts of clerics.
- While i am no fan of Rick Warren, your analogy to the “elevation” of an Iranian cleric is just off base.
- The American cleric is believed to be living in Yemen, where U.S. authorities claim he is leading a branch of al-Qaida.
- The moocher cleric is due for a government angioplasty — no doubt because he clogged his arteries eating well in the land he would destroy.
- Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, himself a Catholic, said on Friday that he regretted what he described as the cleric's deeply conservative attitude.
- The Yemeni official said that while more than one source has indicated that al-Awlaki blessed this operation, the cleric is not believed to be involved in the operational planning.
- After all of the troops have come home, a powerful cleric is ruling Iraq with a theocratic government and Bush has been retired to his ranch by an angry electorate, the president's closest friend will be undaunted.