clergical

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adjective

learned

“the clerical profession”

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Meanings

adjectiveclergical (comparative more clergical, superlative most clergical)

comparative more clergical · superlative most clergical

  1. obsoletelearned
  2. Of or pertaining to the clergy; clerical.

    the clerical profession

    1 more example

    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: […]

    1641, [John Milton], Animadversions upon the Remonstrants Defence against Smectymnuus, London: […] [Richard Oulton and Gregory Dexter] for Thomas Vnderhill, […], →OCLC, page 61

Origin

From clergy + -ical.

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APA

clergical. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/clergical

MLA

“clergical.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/clergical. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “clergical,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/clergical.

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