"HOW SHALL WE THEN LIVE?" Francis Schaeffer

Sunday, March 20, 2005

I was looking up definitions of "rabbi" and then I looked it up using the thesaurus on dictionary.com

I came across these.

Main Entry: clergyman
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: minister
Synonyms: abbey, archbishop, bible thumper, bishop, blackcoat, cardinal, cassock, chaplain, churchman, cleric, clerk, curate, dean, devil dodger, divine, ecclesiast, ecclesiastic, evangelist, father, harp polisher, missionary, monsignor, padre, parson, pastor, pontiff, preacher, predicant, priest, primate, pulpitarian, pulpiteer, rabbi, rector, reverend, sermonizer, shepherd, sky pilot, sky scout, the rev, turn-around collar, vicar
Antonyms: layman, layperson
Source: Roget's New Millennium™ Thesaurus, First Edition (v 1.1.1)
Copyright © 2005 by Lexico Publishing Group, LLC. All rights reserved.

Main Entry: priest
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: churchman
Synonyms: churchman, clergyman, cleric, curate, divine, ecclesiastic, elder, father, father confessor, friar, Holy Joe, holy man, lama, monk, padre, pontiff, preacher, rabbi, rector, sky pilot, vicar
Source: Roget's New Millennium™ Thesaurus, First Edition (v 1.1.1)
Copyright © 2005 by Lexico Publishing Group, LLC. All rights reserved.

JB here! It makes one think.

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