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lector collapse: a public lecturer at certain universities; someone who reads the lessons in a church service; someone ordained in a minor order of the Roman Catholic Church

ministerial collapse: of or relating to a government minister or ministry; "ministerial decree"; of or relating to a minister of religion or the minister's office; "ministerial duties"

scribe collapse: informal terms for journalists; French playwright (1791-1861); score a line on with a pointed instrument, as in metalworking

clergyman collapse: a member of the clergy and a spiritual leader of the Christian Church

monk collapse: a male religious living in a cloister and devoting himself to contemplation and prayer and work; United States jazz pianist who was one of the founders of the bebop style (1917-1982)

acolyte collapse: someone who assists a priest or minister in a liturgical service; a cleric ordained in the highest of the minor orders in the Roman Catholic Church but not in the Anglican Church or the Eastern Orthodox Churches

canon collapse: a collection of books accepted as holy scripture especially the books of the Bible recognized by any Christian church as genuine and inspired; a complete list of saints that have been recognized by the Roman Catholic Church; a rule or especially body of rules or principles generally established as valid and fundamental in a field or art or philosophy; "the neoclassical canon"; "canons of polite society"; a contrapuntal piece of music in which a melody in one part is imitated exactly in other parts; a priest who is a member of a cathedral chapter

cardinal collapse: crested thick-billed North American finch having bright red plumage in the male; a variable color averaging a vivid red; (Roman Catholic Church) one of a group of more than 100 prominent bishops in the Sacred College who advise the Pope and elect new Popes; serving as an essential component; "a cardinal rule"; "the central cause of the problem"; "an example that was fundamental to the argument"; "computers are fundamental to modern industrial structure"; being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order; "cardinal numbers"

important person collapse: a person whose actions and opinions strongly influence the course of events

single collapse: a base hit on which the batter stops safely at first base; existing alone or consisting of one entity or part or aspect or individual; "upon the hill stood a single tower"; "had but a single thought which was to escape"; "a single survivor"; "a single serving"; "a single lens"; "a single thickness"; used of flowers having usually only one row or whorl of petals; "single chrysanthemums resemble daisies and may have more than one row of petals"; hit a single; "the batter singled to left field"

senior collapse: an undergraduate student during the year preceding graduation; older; higher in rank; longer in length of tenure or service; "senior officer"

celibate collapse: an unmarried person who has taken a religious vow of chastity; abstaining from sexual intercourse; "celibate priests"

father collapse: God when considered as the first person in the Trinity; "hear our prayers, Heavenly Father"; a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father); "his father was born in Atlanta"; `Father' is a term of address for priests in some churches (especially the Roman Catholic Church or the Orthodox Catholic Church); `Padre' is frequently used in the military; a person who holds an important or distinguished position in some organization; "the tennis fathers ruled in her favor"; "the city fathers endorsed the proposal"

elder collapse: a person who is older than you are; any of various church officers; any of numerous shrubs or small trees of temperate and subtropical northern hemisphere having white flowers and berrylike fruit; used of the older of two persons of the same name especially used to distinguish a father from his son; "Bill Adams, Sr."

minister collapse: the job of a head of a government department; a diplomat representing one government to another; ranks below ambassador; a person appointed to a high office in the government; "Minister of Finance"; work as a minister; "She is ministering in an old parish"; attend to the wants and needs of others; "I have to minister to my mother all the time"

personage collapse: another word for person; a person not meriting identification; "a strange personage appeared at the door"

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