clerkless

Adjective

clerkless (not comparable)

1. Without clerks.
   • Whatever the cause of the failure, the clerkless store did not materialize.1940, John Thomas Flynn, Country Squire in the White House, page 32
2. (obsolete, rare) Uneducated.
   • […] at which Postern may come in Tyranny, and rigorous cruelty; like that of the Turk, whose military Janizaries and Bashaws, rule all in their Clerklesse and cruel way; to abate the fear of which, as Armes have been practised but sparingly by true and Virtuous Princes, so hath Learning still been...1653, Edward Waterhous[e], An humble Apologie for Learning and Learned Men, page 40
   • And so, having held forth in this wise full half an hour, using very fine-sounding words, but showing himself most clerkless, inasmuch as that he demonstrated not any point he advanced, and by his lack of logic caused divers of us ofttimes to smile, he consented at last, when our patience was...1878, Alice O’Hanlon, Erleston Glen […], page 198