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clergical en · ADJ

Etymology

From clergy + -ical.

Meanings

1. (obsolete) learned
2. Of or pertaining to the clergy; clerical.
   • the clerical profession
   • 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: […] 1641, [John Milton], Animadversions upon the Remonstrants Defence against Smectymnuus, London: […] [Richard Oulton and Gregory Dexter] for Thomas Vnderhill, […], →OCLC, page 61:

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