clergical
English
Etymology
Adjective
clergical (comparative more clergical, superlative most clergical)
- (obsolete) learned
- Of or pertaining to the clergy; clerical.
- the clerical profession
- 1641, [John Milton], Animadversions upon the Remonstrants Defence against Smectymnuus, London: […] [Richard Oulton and Gregory Dexter] for Thomas Vnderhill, […], →OCLC, page 61:
- Conſtantine might have done more juſtly to have puniſh’d thoſe Clergicall faults which he could not conceale, than to leave them unpuniſh’d, that they might remaine conceal’d: […]
References
- “clergical”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.