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Webster 1913 Edition

Clergial

Cler′gi-al

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Adj.

Learned; erudite; clerical.

[Obs.]

Chaucer.

Definition 2024

clergial

clergial

English

Adjective

clergial ‎(comparative more clergial, superlative most clergial)

(obsolete) learned; erudite; clerical
- 1394, 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