clergical
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Adjective[edit]
clergical (comparative more clergical, superlative most clergical)
- (obsolete) Of or pertaining to the clergy; clerical; learned.
- 1641, John Milton, Animadversions upon the Remonstrants Defence against Smectymnuus; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […], Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC:
- Constantine might have done more justly to have punished those clergical faults which he could not conceal , than to leave them unpunished , that they might remain conceale
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “clergical”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)