Reverend: alternatives and connections

Set apart by solemn religious ceremony; especially, in a good sense, made holy; set apart to religious use; consecrated; not profane or common; as, a…

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Set apart by solemn religious ceremony; especially, in a good sense, made holy; set apart to religious use; consecrated; not profane or common; as, a…

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One who has received the highest of the four minor orders in the Catholic church, being ordained to carry the wine and water and the lights at the Ma…

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In England, an ecclesiastical dignitary, next in rank below a bishop, whom he assists, and by whom he is appointed, though with independent authority.

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An ecclesiastic who has a chapel, or who performs religious service in a chapel.

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An ordained minister; a man regularly authorized to preach the gospel, and administer its ordinances; in England usually restricted to a minister of…

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A clerk, a clergyman.

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One who has the cure of souls; originally, any clergyman, but now usually limited to one who assists a rector or vicar.

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An officer in Christian churches appointed to perform certain subordinate duties varying in different communions. In the Roman Catholic and Episcopal…

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Of or belonging to God; as, divine perfections; the divine will.

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A name given to a pastor of the Reformed Church. The word is also applied locally in the United States, in colloquial speech, to any clergyman.

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A schoolmaster; a pedagogue.

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Master; sir; -- a title of respect formerly applied to a knight or a clergyman, and sometimes to the lord of a manor.

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One who guards the entrance of a house or apartment; a porter; a janitor.

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Of or pertaining to the church. See Ecclesiastical.

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A reader of lections; formerly, a person designated to read lessons to the illiterate.

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A servant; a subordinate; an officer or assistant of inferior rank; hence, an agent, an instrument.

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The officer who officiates or performs an office, as the burial office.

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One about to be ordained.

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According to established order; methodical; settled; regular.

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The mouth of a river; an estuary.

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A person who represents a parish in its ecclesiastical and corporate capacities; hence, the rector or incumbent of a parochial church, who has full p…

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A shepherd; one who has the care of flocks and herds.

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One who preaches; one who discourses publicly on religious subjects.

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A presbyter elder; a minister

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One who reads.

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A ruler or governor.

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One who sermonizes.

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A man employed in tending, feeding, and guarding sheep, esp. a flock grazing at large.

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One belonging to an order in the Roman Catholic Church, next interior to the order of deacons; also, a member of a minor order in the Greek Church.

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One deputed or authorized to perform the functions of another; a substitute in office; a deputy.

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An inscription put over or upon anything as a name by which it is known.

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The body of men set apart, by due ordination, to the service of God, in the Christian church, in distinction from the laity; in England, usually rest…

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Lifted up; high in place; exalted aloft; uplifted; lofty.

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