clerisy

[kler-uh-see]

cler·i·sy

[kler-uh-see]
noun
learned persons as a class; literati; intelligentsia.

Origin:
1818; < German Klerisei clergy < Medieval Latin clēricia, equivalent to clēric(us) cleric + -ia -ia; introduced by S.T. Coleridge
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Clerisy is always a great word to know.
So is zedonk. Does it mean:
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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clerisy

noun
an educated and intellectual elite [syn: intelligentsia
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