| 单词 | clerk in holy orders |
| 释义 | > as lemmasclerk in holy orders a. Before the Reformation, and in the Roman Catholic Church, a member of any of the eight orders (though sometimes excluding the bishop). Hence, the distinction, clerk in holy orders, clerk in minor orders: see quot. 1844 at sense 6c. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > [noun] God's maneOE priestOE clerkc1050 secularc1290 vicary1303 minister1340 divinec1380 man of Godc1384 kirkmana1400 man of the churchc1400 cockc1405 Ecclesiastc1405 spiritual1441 ministrator1450 abbé1530 reverend1547 churchman1549 tippet-captain?1550 tippet knight1551 tippet man1551 public minister1564 reading minister1572 clergyman1577 clerk1577 padre1584 minstrel1586 spiritual1600 cleric1623 cassock1628 Levite1640 gownsman1641 teaching elder1642 ecclesiastic1651 religionist1651 crape1682 crape-gown-man1682 man in black1692 soul driver1699 secularist1716 autem jet1737 liturge1737 officiant1740 snub-devil1785 soul doctor1785 officiator1801 umfundisi1825 crape-man1826 clerical1837 God-man1842 Pfarrer1844 liturgist1848 white-choker1851 rook1859 shovel hat1859 sky pilot1865 ecclesiastical1883 joss-pidgin-man1886 josser1887 sin-shiftera1912 sin-buster1931 parch1944 c1050 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 308 Clericus, preost oððe cleric. 1129 Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) Se oðer het Gregorius; he wæs clerc. 1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (1724) 472 That no bissop, ne clerc nathemo, Ne solde withoute kinges leue out of this lond go. 1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (1724) 496 Alle clerkene lefmen in prisoun the king brouȝte. c1315 Shoreham Poems 53 Clerke hys to segge, an Englysch, Eyr of Godes werke. 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. iv. 119 Til clerken coueitise be to clothe þe pore and to fede. 1520 Chron. Eng. iv. f. 32/2 He decreed that Clerkes sholde were no berdes nor longe heere. 1584 H. Llwyd & D. Powel Hist. Cambria 32 The Clarkes of the Church of Winchester did choose him for their Bishop. 1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. lxxviii. 240 Seruices, Offices, and Orders Ecclesiasticall, the first of which three and in part the second may be executed by the Laitie, whereas none haue or can haue the third but the Cleargie. Catechists, Exorcists, Readers, Singers, and the rest of like sort..may in that respect seeme Cleargie men, euen as the Fathers for that cause terme them vsually Clerkes. 1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. ii. xxiii. §4. 571 Torniellus is a Regular Clarke of the congregation of S. Paul. 1654 J. Bramhall Just Vindic. Church of Eng. iv. 61 Wilfride was an Arch-Bishop, not an inferiour Clerk. 1845 J. Lingard Hist. & Antiq. Anglo-Saxon Church (ed. 3) II. xii. 252 The clergy were divided into two classes, one of inferior clerks in minor orders, and employed as lectors, cantors, acolythists, exorcists, and doorkeepers; and the other of clerks in holy orders, deacons and mass-thanes, whose office it was to minister at the altar, and to offer the sacrifice. < as lemmas |
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