clergical

English

Etymology

From clergy +‎ -ical.

Adjective

clergical (comparative more clergical, superlative most clergical)

1. (obsolete) learned
2. Of or pertaining to the clergy; clerical.
   • 1641, [John Milton], Animadversions upon the Remonstrants Defence against Smectymnuus, London: […] [Richard Oulton and Gregory Dexter] for Thomas Vnderhill, […], →OCLC, page 61:

     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: […]

   the clerical profession

References

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