clergial
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Middle English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Adjective[edit]
clergial
- (obsolete) 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
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
References[edit]
- “clergial”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.