Noun:

கிறித்தவக் கோயில் குரு,

clerics's Usage Examples:

Some small foundations had become sinecures for clerics who appropriated all the income.

Looking at Hamas websites, this very month, one finds Saudi clerics prominently featured as providing the religious justification for suicide bombings.

The law includes with clerics, monks, deaconesses, nuns, ascetics; and the word " clerics " covered persons in minor orders, down to doorkeepers.

) Besides the government schools there are establishments conducted by clerics and laymen.

was rescinded, the law and custom of forty years were abolished, conformist clerics were expelled, and the earl of Argyll appeared as leader of the extreme party, while Montrose was the general of the armed Covenanters.

The early justiciars were clerics, in whom the possession of power could not become hereditary.

The fifth canon provides that those, whether clerics or laymen, who are cut off from communion in any particular province are not to be admitted thereto elsewhere.

These clerics became the confessors in royal and noble houses, and were generally chosen from among bishops and other high dignitaries.

, subjected clerics for small offences pertaining to the observances of religion to bishops and synods.

854, were properly excommunication whether generally or as exclusion from the sacraments for a term of months or years or till the day of death and (in the case of clerics) suspension or deposition.

Hussein has shown similar generosity elsewhere in Iraq, lavishing support on Shiite clerics -- as long as they pledge fealty to his rule.

Synonyms:

churchman, ordainer, ecclesiastic, pluralist, clergyman, divine, pardoner, man of the cloth, reverend,

Antonyms:

earthly, inglorious, profane, laity, layman,