bishopric, bishopdom[obs3]; episcopate, episcopacy; see, diocese; deanery, stall; canonry, canonicate[obs3]; prebend, prebendaryship[obs3]; benefice, incumbency, glebe, advowson[obs3], living, cure; rectorship[obs3]; vicariate, vicarship; deaconry[obs3], deaconship[obs3]; curacy; chaplain, chaplaincy, chaplainship; cardinalate, cardinalship[obs3]; abbacy, presbytery.
     holy orders, ordination, institution, consecration, induction, reading
in, preferment, translation, presentation.
     popedom[obs3]; the Vatican, the apostolic see; religious sects &c.
984.
     council &c. 696; conclave, convocation, synod, consistory, chapter,
vestry; sanhedrim, conge d’elire[Fr]; ecclesiastical courts, consistorial court, court of Arches. 
     V. call, ordain, induct, prefer, translate, consecrate, present.
     take orders, take the tonsure, take the veil, take vows. 
     Adj. ecclesiastical, ecclesiological[obs3]; clerical, sacerdotal,
priestly, prelatical, pastoral, ministerial, capitular[obs3], theocratic; hierarchical, archiepiscopal; episcopal, episcopalian; canonical; monastic, monachal[obs3]; monkish; abbatial[obs3], abbatical[obs3]; Anglican[obs3]; pontifical, papal, apostolic, Roman, Popish; ultramontane, priest-ridden.

     #996.  Clergy.—­ N. clergy, clericals, ministry, priesthood,
presbytery, the cloth, the desk.
     clergyman, divine, ecclesiastic, churchman, priest, presbyter,
hierophant[obs3], pastor, shepherd, minister; father, father in Christ; padre, abbe, cure; patriarch; reverend; black coat; confessor.
     dignitaries of the church; ecclesiarch[obs3], hierarch[obs3];
ebdomarius[Lat]; eminence, reverence, elder, primate, metropolitan, archbishop, bishop, prelate, diocesan, suffragan[obs3], dean, subdean[obs3], archdeacon, prebendary, canon, rural dean, rector, parson, vicar, perpetual curate, residentiary[obs3], beneficiary, incumbent, chaplain, curate; deacon, deaconess; preacher, reader, lecturer; capitular[obs3]; missionary, propagandist, Jesuit, revivalist, field preacher.
     churchwarden, sidesman[obs3]; clerk, precentor[obs3], choir; almoner,
suisse[Fr], verger, beadle, sexton, sacristan; acolyth[obs3], acolothyst[obs3], acolyte, altar boy; chorister.
     [Roman Catholic priesthood] Pope, Papa, pontiff, high priest,
cardinal; ancient flamen[obs3], flamen[obs3]; confessor, penitentiary; spiritual director.
     cenobite, conventual, abbot, prior, monk, friar, lay brother,
beadsman[obs3], mendicant, pilgrim, palmer; canon regular, canon secular; Franciscan, Friars minor, Minorites; Observant, Capuchin, Dominican, Carmelite; Augustinian[obs3]; Gilbertine; Austin Friars[obs3], Black Friars, White Friars, Gray Friars, Crossed Friars, Crutched Friars; Bonhomme[Fr], Carthusian, Benedictine[obs3], Cistercian, Trappist, Cluniac, Premonstatensian, Maturine; Templar, Hospitaler; Bernardine[obs3], Lorettine, pillarist[obs3], stylite[obs3].