Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
clergial : as, “clergical faults,”
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Of or pertaining to the clergy; clerical; clerkily; learned.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete Of or pertaining to the
clergy ;clerical ;learned .
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Examples
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BUTT (mottledged youth, clergical appealance, who, as his pied friar, is supposing to motto the sorry dejester in tifftaff toffiness or to be digarced from ever and a daye in his accounts).
Finnegans Wake 2006
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Not even when we are on vacation in a different state and being decidedly non-clergical?...please?
Red Lipstick PeaceBang 2006
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Sem Fem, when you're in a different state and being non-clergical, you can wear leather pants AND black nail polish.
Red Lipstick PeaceBang 2006
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Katelin called it "just a regular week on Wisteria Lane" as the Desperate Housewives contend with clergical bribery, surprise pregnancy, and naked peepers in
Bookspotcentral 2009
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Dr Dancer has clearly lived a cloistered clergical existence for too long, cocooned from the rest of society, seemingly oblivious that a great many Kiwi's work damn hard and deserve a few more bucks in their pockets & not those of his choice.
Planet Atheism 2008
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