clergial
Middle English
Adjective
clergial
- (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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References
- “clergial”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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