Word Meanings - CLERICALISM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An excessive devotion to the interests of the sacerdotal order; undue influence of the clergy; sacerdotalism.

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• SACERDOTAL
  Of or pertaining to priests, or to the order of priests; relating to the priesthood; priesty; as, sacerdotal dignity; sacerdotal functions. The ascendency of the sacerdotal order was long the ascendency which naturally and properly belongs
• SACERDOTALISM
  The system, style, spirit, or character, of a priesthood, or sacerdotal order; devotion to the interests of the sacerdotal order.
• DEVOTIONALLY
  In a devotional manner; toward devotion.
• CLERGYMAN
  An ordained minister; a man regularly authorized to peach the gospel, and administer its ordinances; in England usually restricted to a minister of the Established Church.
• ORDERLY
  1. Conformed to order; in order; regular; as, an orderly course or plan. Milton. 2. Observant of order, authority, or rule; hence, obedient; quiet; peaceable; not unruly; as, orderly children; an orderly community. 3. Performed in good
• DEVOTIONAL
  Pertaining to, suited to, or used in, devotion; as, a devotional posture; devotional exercises; a devotional frame of mind.
• INFLUENCE
  Induction. Syn. -- Control; persuasion; ascendency; sway; power; authority; supremacy; mastery; management; restraint; character; reputation; prestige. (more info) 1. A flowing in or upon; influx. God hath his influence into the very essence of
• CLERGYABLE
  Entitled to, or admitting, the benefit of clergy; as, a clergyable felony. Blackstone.
• EXCESSIVE
  Characterized by, or exhibiting, excess; overmuch. Excessive grief the enemy to the living. Shak. Syn. -- Undue; exorbitant; extreme; overmuch; enormous; immoderate; monstrous; intemperate; unreasonable. See Enormous --Ex*cess*ive*ly,
• CLERGY
  clergie confused with OF. clergié, F. clergé, fr. LL. clericatus office of priest, monastic life, fr. L. clericus priest, LL. scholar, clerc. Both the Old French words meant clergy, in sense 1, the former having also sense 2. See 1. The body
• UNDUE
  1. Not due; not yet owing; as, an undue debt, note, or bond. 2. Not right; not lawful or legal; improper; as, an undue proceeding. Bacon. 3. Not agreeable to a rule or standard, or to duty; disproportioned; excessive; immoderate; inordinate; as,
• ORDERLINESS
  The state or quality of being orderly.
• SACERDOTALLY
  In a sacerdotal manner.
• ORDER
  1. Regular arrangement; any methodical or established succession or harmonious relation; method; system; as: Of material things, like the books in a library. Of intellectual notions or ideas, like the topics of a discource. Of periods of time or
• INFLUENCER
  One who, or that which, influences.
• ORDERING
  Disposition; distribution; management. South.
• DEVOTION
  1. The act of devoting; consecration. 2. The state of being devoted; addiction; eager inclination; strong attachment love or affection; zeal; especially, feelings toward God appropriately expressed by acts of worship; devoutness. Genius animated
• DEVOTIONALITY
  The practice of a devotionalist. A. H. Clough.
• ORDERABLE
  Capable of being ordered; tractable. Being very orderable in all his sickness. Fuller.
• ORDERER
  1. One who puts in order, arranges, methodizes, or regulates. 2. One who gives orders.
• IMBORDER
  To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.
• MISORDER
  To order ill; to manage erroneously; to conduct badly. Shak.
• SELF-DEVOTION
  The act of devoting one's self, or the state of being self- devoted; willingness to sacrifice one's own advantage or happiness for the sake of others; self-sacrifice.
• ACCORDER
  One who accords, assents, or concedes.
• DISORDER
  1. Want of order or regular disposition; lack of arrangement; confusion; disarray; as, the troops were thrown into disorder; the papers are in disorder. 2. Neglect of order or system; irregularity. From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And
• MISORDERLY
  Irregular; disorderly.
• DISORDERLY
  Offensive to good morals and public decency; notoriously offensive; as, a disorderly house. Syn. -- Irregular; immethodical; confused; tumultuous; inordinate; intemperate; unruly; lawless; vicious. (more info) 1. Not in order; marked by disorder;
• SEA-BORDERING
  Bordering on the sea; situated beside the sea. Drayton.
• RECORDER
  A kind of wind instrument resembling the flageolet. "Flutes and soft recorders." Milton. (more info) 1. One who records; specifically, a person whose official duty it is to make a record of writings or transactions. 2. The title of the
• SUPERORDER
  A group intermediate in importance between an order and a subclass.
• DISORDERED
  1. Thrown into disorder; deranged; as, a disordered house, judgment. 2. Disorderly. Shak. -- Dis*or"dered*ly, adv. -- Dis*or"dered*ness, n.
• MISDEVOTION
  Mistaken devotion.
• RECORDERSHIP
  The office of a recorder.