clerkshipn.
/ˈklɑːkʃɪp/, U.S. /ˈklərkˌʃɪp/ΘΚΠ
society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > [noun] > collective
clergyc1275
clerkshipc1275
churchc1400
spiritualtya1402
spiritualc1410
spritualitya1450
spirituality1525
spiritalty1534
ministry1566
cloth1656
crape1682
clericalty1860
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 5088 Þer-ouer ærchebiscopes þat clærcscipe [c1300 Otho clercsipe] to rihten.
2. The office or position of a clerk:
a. Christian Church.
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society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > [noun] > office of
clergyc1440
clerkhoodc1449
clerkship?1488
ministration1550
ministry1560
clergyship1620
clericality1660
cassock1687
churchmanship1690
the cloth1709
clericature1725
clericate1869
?1488 in T. Stapleton Plumpton Corr. (1839) 66 That my brother..myght have..the clarkship, trustyng to God he should please the parishioners.
1670 G. Havers tr. G. Leti Il Cardinalismo di Santa Chiesa i. iii. 90 To dispose of what Benefices, Clerkships, Chaplainships..fall within their several Churches.
1728 J. Swift Intelligencer (1729) No. 7. 61 He sold the Clarkship of his Parish, when it became vacant.
b. (See clerk n. 5, 6.)
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society > occupation and work > position or job > [noun] > position or office of specific workers
plumbership1455
portership1521
clerkship1531
factorshipc1550
pavership1597
mastership1688
private secretaryship1789
writership1810
taskmastership1815
factoryship1836
engineership1839
foremanship1853
improvership1864
call boy1877
gaffership1895
producership1924
operatorship1934
society > authority > office > holder of office > public officials > [noun] > clerk or secretary > position of
clerkship1531
secretaryship1550
society > communication > record > written record > compiler or keeper of written records > [noun] > official in charge of records > office of
clerkship1531
1531 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 100 The Clerkeschypp of the markett.
1648 C. Walker Relations & Observ. ii. 168 The Clerkship of the Assize in Norfolke.
1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses (R.) Which Thomas [Talbot] being promoted to the clerkship of the records in the Tower of London.
a1871 T. Carlyle in J. W. Carlyle Lett. & Memorials (1883) I. 247 We got him..into some small clerkship.
1888 Daily News 19 Sept. 6/4 An account of French clerks, and how they are prepared for the career of clerkship.
3. Book-learning, scholarship. archaic.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > scholarly knowledge, erudition > [noun] > book-learning, letters
craftOE
book loreOE
lettersa1250
letter1340
lettrurec1400
literaturec1450
reading?1548
book learning1553
book skill1553
book knowledge1613
bookcrafta1637
scholarship1644
clerkship1648
letter-learning1668
bookhood1772
clerk-learning1865
literacy1880
1648 J. Goodwin Νεοϕυτοπρεσβυτερος 22 Mr. Jenkin demonstrates himselfe defective in Clerk-ship, and matter of learning.
1672 A. Marvell Rehearsal Transpros'd i. 5 The Laiety [need] no more Clerkship than to save them from Hanging.
1829 Q. Rev. 39 370 His clerkship..would hardly, in old times, have saved a felon from the gallows.
1841 I. D'Israeli Amenities Lit. I. 179 The more learned, who displayed their clerkship by their Latinity.
4. The function of an office clerk; writing with good penmanship and orthography.
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society > communication > writing > [noun] > writing as occupation
writingc1405
scriveneryc1454
clerkship1550
calligraphy1590
pencraft1600
scribeship1606
clerking1679
pen-and-inkmanship1804
clerkhood1873
clerkage1883
clerkery1883
clerkdom-
1550 Accts. St. John's Hosp., Canterbury (Canterbury Cathedral Archives: CCA-U13/4) Payd to Ryve for clarkis shyppe iiijs.
1610 W. Folkingham Feudigraphia i. i. 2 The Symboliographie or Clarke-ship, and penning of the Suruey.
1710 W. Mather Young Man's Compan. (1727) 3 To know when rightly to use [small letters], and when [capitals], is the first step towards good Clerkship.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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