clerkly
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (obsolete) Scholarly.Examples: "For notwithstanding al your great brags and this your clerkly booke, ye knowe not nor euer shall knowe, but that the Pope is the supreame head of the Churche."; "Hath he not tvvit our Soueraigne Lady here / VVith ignominious vvords, though Clarkely coucht? / As if ſhe had ſuborned ſome to ſvveare / Falſe allegations, to o'rethrovv his ſtate."; "The words are Gratians, that Copula Sacerdotalis vel consanguincorum, The marriage or (as this Clerkly Grammarian translates it) the carnall copulation of Priests, or kinsfolkes is not forbidden by any Legall, Euangelicall, or Apostolicall authoritie, but by Ecclesiasticall Law it is forbidden."obsolete
adv (English)
1. (obsolete) In a scholarly manner.Examples: "If these woordis to some seme spoken to clerkly, goe to, I will expounde theim more plainely."; "For this doo lerned persons déeme, of Ouids present woorke: That in no one of all his bookes the which he wrate, doo lurke Mo darke and secret misteries, mo counselles wyse and sage, Mo good ensamples, mo reprooues of vyce in youth and age, Mo fyne inuentions too delight, mo matters clerkly knit, No nor more straunge varietie too shew a lerned wit."; "Hath he not twit our sovereign lady here With ignominious words, though clerkly couch’d, As if she had suborned some to swear False allegations to o’erthrow his state?"obsolete
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