What does clergical mean?
Clergical means (obsolete) learned.
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(obsolete) learned.
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: […]
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Clergical means (obsolete) learned.
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the clerical profession
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