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prelate : clergy = divine {elysian}
• (prelate)- an ecclesiastic of a high order, as an archbishop, bishop, etc.; a
church dignitary, ( );
On the shoulders of a prelate was the purple that had dazzled the world —
Imperial Purple;
• (clergy)- the body of people ordained for religious service; And
the clergy were all devoted to the task of mercy. — A Book of Golden Deeds;
• (divine)- to discover or declare (something obscure or in the future) by
divination; prophesy, ( , , );
A divine, according to our division of labour, is a man who has chosen as his
life-work to study the things of God; the things, that is, of God in Christ, in
Scripture, in the Church, and in the heart and life of man. — Samuel
Rutherford;
• (elysian)- of, pertaining to, or resembling Elysium( );
• blissful; delightful, ( ; ); His own chronicle has forgotten or
ignored those elysian days and has not in all its length — The French in the
Heart of America;
elysian fields = nirvana = eden = heaven
• (nirvana)- (often initial capital letter) Pali, nibbana. Buddhism. freedom
from the endless cycle of personal reincarnations, with their consequent
suffering, as a result of the extinction of individual passion, hatred, and
delusion, ( ); This prepares one for Mahayana Buddhism,
which prepares one for nirvana, which is the elevation into nothingness, that
is, into no-thingness, into the real world;
• (eden)- the garden where Adam and Eve first dwelt; hence, a delightful
region or residence; God sent them out of the garden of eden where man had
every goods that was needed;
laity : secular = temporal > temporize
• (laity)- the body of religious worshipers, as distinguished from the clergy
( ), ( ); This anti-
ecclesiastical bias on the part of the laity was the dominant factor in the
Reformation under Henry VIII. — The Project Gutenberg eBook of Henri VIII -
A.F. Pollard;
• (secular)- of or pertaining to worldly things or to things that are not
regarded as religious, spiritual, or sacred; temporal, ( ; ;
- ); It's a word shared by both the sacred and the secular, the
religious and profane, the worldly and the other-worldly. — Iowa State Daily;
• (temporal)- pertaining to or concerned with the present life or this world;