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Example sentences for "cleric"

Lexicographically close words:
clerge; clergie; clergy; clergyman; clergymen; clerical; clericalism; clericals; clerici; clerico
  1. It suited Olivares to appoint Antonio de Aragon, a youthful cleric and the second son of the Duke of Cardona.

  2. No cleric or religious or powerful noble or baron is to be appointed.

  3. The young person with whom I was walking bowed to the occupants of the carriage--a young cleric and an extremely goodlooking and well-dressed lady.

  4. Should any cleric be found to have taken usury,' the latter version runs, 'let him be degraded and excommunicated.

  5. Thus a common soldier would be avaricious if he strove to obtain a uniform of the quality worn by an officer, and a simple cleric if he attempted to clothe himself in a style only befitting a bishop.

  6. This tall man informed the cleric that he came from an under-water monastery, and explained 'that there should be subaqueous inhabiting by men is with God no harder than that they should dwell in any other place'.

  7. Mongan seized the kingship of Ulster, and the little cleric who had done the reason was Manannan the great and mighty.

  8. The Benedictine defenders of Bernard (in Migne) say, in another connection: ‘Was there a single cardinal or cleric in Rome who was unacquainted with his dogmas?

  9. Then the visiting cleric struck the table heavily with his closed hand and, with a fierce intensity, whispered, "O Man!

  10. A note by Swift states the cleric to be Bishop Woolly of Clonfert.

  11. Aristocracy of this country, cleric or laic, will not often be obtruded upon this seminary.

  12. At this Lairgnen was very wroth, and he went himself to Mochaovóg, and he found the cleric and the four birds at the altar.

  13. Then the brethren came back and hearkened to the chanting of the cleric until matins were performed.

  14. The address of this cleric in proposing Mr. Blennerhasset at the nomination had annoyed those he assailed intensely.

  15. She also died, and the indefatigable cleric married as his third experiment a widow cursed with a very violent temper.

  16. Whether any layman or cleric keeps as a guest the concubine of a cleric, and where are there harbours of concubines.

  17. The spiritual duties of the parish were sometimes served by one of the community in holy orders, or by a cleric attached to the house; sometimes by a stipendiary priest who was paid according to private agreement, and dismissed at pleasure.

  18. The solution was as follows: The secular cleric was not bound by any Divine ordinance to celibacy, and did not, like the monks, take any vow of celibacy on admission to Orders.

  19. Further, I think that the licentiate Don Juan de Vivero was the first cleric who came to these islands.

  20. Another cleric was the licentiate Don Juan de Villanueva, of whom the only thing known is that he was a priest, and that he lived but a little time--and that after the erection of the church.

  21. No longer were the cabins filled with drilled bands of tourists with their loud-voiced lecturing cleric in charge.

  22. I repeat that the Jesuits have conquered and absorbed everything, that all Rome belongs to them from the most insignificant cleric to his Holiness in person.

  23. And it seemed certain that this manoeuvre had brought about everything; what one cleric working for Italy had done, was to be undone by another working against Italy.

  24. This early production is a poem, called Isengrinus, in Latin hexameters, by a cleric of South Flanders, whose name has not survived.

  25. Such might be one rendering; yet the placid cleric may be simply introduced to shew the outward appearance of the ravening ones.

  26. It has been a favourite explanation of these anti-cleric carvings to say that they were due to the jealousy which existed between the regular orders and the preaching friars.

  27. The morning was somewhat chilly, and the only other occupant of the compartment was a young cleric with a soiled white necktie.

  28. The Cleric asserts that it is morally wrong not to believe certain propositions, whatever the results of a strict scientific investigation of the evidence of these propositions.

  29. It matters not to us whom Cleric follows, so long as we may follow Cleric!

  30. A thrill coursed through him when he made her out, unmistakably--dressed still in the tight white clothing of her own Gens, with the Red Lily of the house of Cleric on her breast and on her back!

  31. For her white clothing, and her Red Lily of Cleric were plainly visible and recognizable!

  32. Cleric was sending out men to rescue Jaska from the Aircar which pursued her!

  33. Especially am I glad that Dalis and Cleric vote with me.

  34. The daughter of Cleric was leading the Gens of Dalis into combat under her own colors and her father's insignia!

  35. If Cleric does not fear for her to be Spokesman of a Gens, why should I?

  36. As it was wiser to choose a priest for the rescue of her life, if the cleric were young, handsome, and strong, so much the better, surely.

  37. He had been called to the bedside of some rich cleric who was ill; he cured him, but so speedily that his fee was refused.

  38. The young cleric was nursed by his mother, who, upon seeing me, overwhelmed me with a shower of gratitude copious enough to drown myself in.

  39. Pani Celina is better, but the cleric Latyzs died the day before yesterday.

  40. The doctor left me presently as he had another patient at Ploszow, a young cleric from the Warsaw seminary, the son of one of the Ploszow peasants.

  41. Magister George Plompton" was another learned cleric of good family, being the son of Sir William Plumpton of Plumpton, knight.

  42. Two of them quarrelled fiercely because one player would not yield the halfpenny he had certainly lost, and the altercation must have ended in blows if a corpulent, elderly cleric had not indignantly reproved them, and boxed their ears.

  43. The smoke rose into the air lazily, and the old cleric paused now and again to look at it, the little smile of self-satisfaction breaking on his lips.


  44. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cleric" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    cassock; chaplain; churchman; clergyman; cleric; clerical; clerk; curate; divine; ecclesiastic; minister; parson; pastor; preacher; priest; rector; reverend; shepherd