Which preposition to use with cleric

of Occurrences 6%

Again, some priests, like the clerics of the Renaissance and post-Renaissance times, despise and dislike the Breviary for its alleged barbarous style.

in Occurrences 5%

2. Clerics in Holy Orders (Canon 135, Codex).

as Occurrences 3%

In judging those younger than ourselves," said the canon, gallantly coupling himself with his auditors,' though acutely conscious that he was some twenty years the junior of both, "we must not forget that they recover their spirits, by a merciful dispensation of Providence, more quickly than we should ourselves in the like circumstances," said the canon, who was as light-hearted a cleric as any in England.

from Occurrences 2%

The third member was a thick short bulldog of a woman, who, from the masterly way in which she kept corduroys from slipping into the village smithy and saved the cleric from drifting to a sailor's grave in the duck-pond, seemed to be the controlling spirit of the party.

on Occurrences 1%

In the same way the counts and other chiefs of the State underwent separation, in the morning, until, whether the king was present or absent, all were gathered together; then the lords above specified, the clerics on their side, and the laics on theirs, repaired to the hall which had been assigned to them, and where seats had been with due honor prepared for them.

to Occurrences 1%

The turning point in his career came in 1841, when he accepted the position of a cleric to one of the surveyors in the West of England.

Which preposition to use with  cleric