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^[1]:

     Oure termes been so clergial and so queynte; I blowe the fir till that myn herte feynte

     Our terms are so scholarly and so strange. I blow the fire until my heart faints.

References

• “clergial”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.