Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—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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