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Middle English
Etymology
clergy + -al
Adjective
clergial
- (obsolete) learned; erudite; clerical
1394, Geoffrey 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- Our terms are so scholarly and so strange. I blow the fire until my heart faints.
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