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A clergyman or ecclesiastic. [Obs.] All persons were styled clerks that served in the church of Christ. Ayliffe.

A feast for the benefit of the parish clerk. [Eng.] T. Warton.

Unlearned. [Obs.] E. Waterhouse.

Scholarlike. [Obs.] Shak.

Scholarship. [Obs.]

Of or pertaining to a clerk. Cranmer.

State, quality, or business of a clerk.

A clerk who registers passengers, baggage, etc., for conveyance, as by railway or steamship, or who sells passage tickets at a booking office.

A post-office clerk in charge of the nixies.

A registar or clerk; -- used originally in courts of civil law jurisdiction, but in Europe used for a clerk or registar generally.

Arraignment; as, the clerk of the arraigns. Blackstone. Macaulay.

Bound by articles; apprenticed; as, an articled clerk.

A Hindoo gentleman; native clerk who writes English; also, a Hindoo title answering to Mr. or Esquire. Whitworth.

A post-office clerk whose duty is to decipher obscure addresses.

Hence: A department of public business requiring a force of clerks; the body of officials in a department who labor under the direction of a chief.

, or call off, the items of an account; to call the roll of a military company. No parish clerk who calls the psalm so clear. Gay.

Of or pertaining to the clergy; clerical; clerkily; learned. [Obs.] Milton.

as extended to all who could read, such persons being, in the eye of the law, clerici, or clerks. This privilege was abridged and modified by various statutes, and finally abolished in the reign of George IV. (1827). -- Regular clergy, Secular clergy See Regular, n., and Secular, a.

A clerk, a clergyman. [R.] Bp. Horsley.

Of or relating to a clerk or copyist, or to writing. "Clerical work." E. Everett. A clerical error, an error made in copying or writing.