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clerisy

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cler⋅i⋅sy

  [kler-uh-see]
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–noun
learned persons as a class; literati; intelligentsia.
Origin:
1818; < G Klerisei clergy < ML clēricia, equiv. to clēric(us) cleric + -ia -ia; introduced by S.T. Coleridge
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cler·i·sy   (klěr'ĭ-sē)   
n.  Educated people considered as a group; the literati.

[German Klerisei, clergy, from Medieval Latin clēricia, from Late Latin clēricus, priest; see clerk.]
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