clergial

Middle English

Etymology

clergy +‎ -al

Adjective

clergial

  1. learned; erudite; clerical
    • 1394, Geoffrey Chaucer, “v. 752”, in The Canon's Yeoman's Tale‎[1]:
      Oure termes been so clergial and so queynte; I blowe the fir till that myn herte feynte
      Our terms are so scholarly and so strange. I blow the fire until my heart faints.

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