Let the dog in!

noun:
The well educated class; the intelligentsia.

Clerisy is from German Klerisei, “clergy,” from Medieval Latin clericia, from Late Latin clericus, “priest,” from Late Greek klerikos, “belonging to the clergy,” from Greek kleros, “inheritance, lot,” in allusion to Deuteronomy 18:2 (”Therefore shall they have no inheritance among their brethren: the Lord is their inheritance, as he hath said unto them”).

I must not be part of this group since I did not even know what it meant! Thank you word-of-the-day for making that clear! Perhaps I should go back to bartending 101….

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