Clerkly

Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective

Meaning

Of clerks; befitting a clerk..

Definitions by Sense

1. Of clerks; befitting a clerk.
2. (obsolete) Scholarly.
3. (obsolete) In a scholarly manner.

Example Sentences

the clerkly life

Therefore, desiring to keep my place in the young Tsar’s regard, I did not speak too highly of Mazeppa, though I allowed him to be a shrewd and capable person, of clerkly rather than military attainments.

Ida Arnold swivelled her eyes round the elegant furnishing of the Pompadour Boudoir. They picked out like a searchlight a cushion, a couch, the thin clerkly mouth of the man opposite her.

I have promised him that when he is released, early next year, I will find him something to do: a job in a gymnasium, if possible, where his feeling for men and physical exercise can be fulfilled, rather than baulked and denied in some clerkly work.

For notwithstanding al your great brags and this your clerkly booke, ye knowe not nor euer shall knowe, but that the Pope is the supreame head of the Churche.

Hath he not tvvit our Soueraigne Lady here / VVith ignominious vvords, though Clarkely coucht? / As if ſhe had ſuborned ſome to ſvveare / Falſe allegations, to o'rethrovv his ſtate.

The words are Gratians, that Copula Sacerdotalis vel consanguincorum, The marriage or (as this Clerkly Grammarian translates it) the carnall copulation of Priests, or kinsfolkes is not forbidden by any Legall, Euangelicall, or Apostolicall authoritie, but by Ecclesiasticall Law it is forbidden.

[N]ow Clerks and Clerici have divers acceptations, generally all men literate vvere thus called, and becauſe Church men were moſtly of old ſuch officers, therefore all men that are Bookiſh are ſaid to be Clerkly.

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• clerklier
• clerkliest
• more clerkly
• most clerkly

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