clergial

Middle English

Etymology

clergy + -al

Adjective

clergial

  1. (obsolete) learned; erudite; clerical
    • 1394, Geoffrey Chaucer, “v. 752”, in The Canon's Yeoman's Tale:
      Oure termes been so clergial and so queynte; I blowe the fir till that myn herte feynte
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