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means An ordained minister or priest authorized to lead religious services and provide spiritual guidance.

from Built from 'clergy,' which traces back through Old French 'clergie' to Latin 'clericus' (a priest, a man of the cloth), itself from Greek 'klerikos,' meaning 'belonging to the klēros' — the 'lot' or 'inheritance.' That klēros goes back to a biblical idea: priests had no land inheritance like other tribes, their 'portion' was sacred duty itself. The word 'clerk' is its secular twin, splitting off to mean anyone who could read and write — in a largely illiterate age, that was mostly churchmen.