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celibacy, clerical
celibacy, clerical. Clerical celibacy, common since early Christian times, has scant scriptural authority. The Council of Elvira (c.305) forbade all western clergy to marry, a decision later confirmed by popes and western councils. The 11th-cent. Hildebrandine reforms, implemented in England sensitively by Lanfranc, sought to eliminate renewed clerical concubinage. Lateran decrees (1123, 1139) reinforced this situation which remains the official catholic line, whereas the eastern church decreed (691) that, though bishops must be celibate, priests and deacons could continue already-established marriages. Clerical marriage was a major issue at the Reformation. Compulsory Anglican celibacy was abolished (1549), though Cranmer was already secretly married. Elizabeth initially disapproved of married clergy, even of Parker. After the second Vatican Council (1962–5) allowed a married diaconate, Paul VI in Sacerdotalis caelibatus resisted strong pressure to end celibacy (1967). Recent catholic reordination of married former Anglican bishops and priests (1995) has complicated the issue.
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JOHN CANNON. "celibacy, clerical." The Oxford Companion to British History. 2002. Encyclopedia.com. 29 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. JOHN CANNON. "celibacy, clerical." The Oxford Companion to British History. 2002. Encyclopedia.com. (May 29, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O110-celibacyclerical.html JOHN CANNON. "celibacy, clerical." The Oxford Companion to British History. 2002. Retrieved May 29, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O110-celibacyclerical.html |
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cleric
cleric adj. clerical; sb. clergyman. XVII. — ecclL. clēricus — Gr. klērikós (eccl.) belonging to the Christian ministerial order, f. klêros lot, heritage, as used (e.g.) in Acts 1: 17 ‘the lot (klêros) of this ministry’.
So clerical of the clergy XVI; of a clerk or penman XVIII. — ecclL. clēricālis, f. clēricus. |
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T. F. HOAD. "cleric." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. 29 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. T. F. HOAD. "cleric." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. (May 29, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O27-cleric.html T. F. HOAD. "cleric." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. 1996. Retrieved May 29, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O27-cleric.html |
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cleric
cler·ic / ˈklerik/ • n. a priest or minister of a Christian church. ∎ a priest or religious leader in any religion. ORIGIN: early 17th cent.: from ecclesiastical Latin clericus ‘clergyman,’ from Greek klērikos ‘belonging to the Christian clergy,’ from klēros ‘lot, heritage’ (Acts 1:26). |
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"cleric." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Encyclopedia.com. 29 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "cleric." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Encyclopedia.com. (May 29, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O999-cleric.html "cleric." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Retrieved May 29, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O999-cleric.html |
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Clerical Subscription Act
Clerical Subscription Act 1865. The Act changing the form of declaration made by Anglican clergy on ordination and on accepting preferment. Acknowledgement of the Royal Supremacy was no longer required, and only a general assent to the Thirty-Nine Articles was demanded. In 1975 the form of assent was made even less rigid. See also ASSENT, DECLARATION OF.
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E. A. LIVINGSTONE. "Clerical Subscription Act." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. 2000. Encyclopedia.com. 29 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. E. A. LIVINGSTONE. "Clerical Subscription Act." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. 2000. Encyclopedia.com. (May 29, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O95-ClericalSubscriptionAct.html E. A. LIVINGSTONE. "Clerical Subscription Act." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. 2000. Retrieved May 29, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O95-ClericalSubscriptionAct.html |
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Clerical Disabilities Act
Clerical Disabilities Act 1870. The Act which allows a cleric of the C of E after resigning his preferments to execute a Deed of Relinquishment and thereby regain such civil rights as he lost through being a clergyman.
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E. A. LIVINGSTONE. "Clerical Disabilities Act." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. 2000. Encyclopedia.com. 29 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. E. A. LIVINGSTONE. "Clerical Disabilities Act." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. 2000. Encyclopedia.com. (May 29, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O95-ClericalDisabilitiesAct.html E. A. LIVINGSTONE. "Clerical Disabilities Act." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. 2000. Retrieved May 29, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O95-ClericalDisabilitiesAct.html |
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•red-brick • Cedric
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•androcentric, centric, concentric, eccentric, egocentric, ethnocentric, Eurocentric, geocentric, phallocentric, theocentric
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•Dietrich
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•nitric
•aleatoric, allegoric, anaphoric, camphoric, categoric, choric, Doric, euphoric, historic, metaphoric, meteoric, phantasmagoric, phosphoric, pyrophoric, semaphoric, sophomoric, theophoric, Warwick, Yorick
•con trick
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•Frederick • Roderick • undertrick
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•rhetoric • maverick • overtrick
•Masaryk
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"cleric." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. 29 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "cleric." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. (May 29, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O233-cleric.html "cleric." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Retrieved May 29, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O233-cleric.html |
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