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clergical

clergical adjective: learned.

Adjective

clergical (comparative more clergical, superlative most clergical)

  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

Forms of clergical

comparativemore clergical
superlativemost clergical

Origin of clergical

From clergy + -ical.

Questions about clergical

What does clergical mean?
Clergical means learned.
What part of speech is clergical?
Clergical is an adjective.

Words near clergical in the dictionary

  1. clerestoried
  2. clerestories
  3. clerestory
  4. Clergate
  5. clergiable
  6. clergical
  7. clergies
  8. clergy
  9. clergy collar
  10. clergyable
  11. clergyism

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