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1Clerical celibacy (Catholic Church) — See also: Clerical celibacy Clerical celibacy is the discipline by which, in some Churches, only unmarried men are, as a rule, to be ordained to the priesthood. The same discipline holds in some other Churches for ordination to the episcopate.… …
2irreformable — /ir i fawr meuh beuhl/, adj. 1. insusceptible to reforming influences; incorrigible. 2. not subject to improvement; final; perfect: irreformable doctrine. [1600 10; IR 2 + REFORM1 + ABLE] * * * …
