Noun
An ordained minister; a man regularly authorized to preach the gospel, and administer its ordinances; in England usually restricted to a minister of the Established Church.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThere is a species of person called a 'Modern Churchman' who draws the full salary of a beneficed clergyman and need not commit himself to any religious belief. Evelyn Waugh
There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman. Henry Fielding
An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men. Vincent van Gogh
That clergyman soon becomes an object of contempt who being often asked out to dinner never refuses to go. Jerome
Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister. Herman Melville
Never, ever ask a former clergyman to say the blessing over a holiday dinner. Not if you like your dinner warm, anyway. Mary Kay Andrews