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clerisy
[kler-uh-see]
noun
learned persons as a class; literati; intelligentsia.
51Թ History and Origins
Example Sentences
When Buddhism was joined to Western science, it would generate its own clerisy and become not a thing of infinite passion but a sort of cult, specifically a cult of expertise.
Obscurantism enveloped in opacity is the academics’ way of assigning themselves status as members of a closed clerisy indulging in linguistic fads.
Only those the board licenses are admitted to the clerisy uniquely entitled to publicly discuss engineering.
Indeed, the point of such ludicrous prose is to signal membership in a closed clerisy that possesses a private language.
You have never met a more cocksure lot than the monetary-policy clerisy.
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