Brewer's: Secular Clergy

(The). The parish clergy who live in the world, in contradistinction to monks, who live in monasteries, etc., out of the world. (Latin, secularis.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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