Clergical

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    learned obsolete
  2. 2
    Of or pertaining to the clergy; clerical.

    "the clerical profession"

Example

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"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: […]"

Etymology

From clergy + -ical.

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