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单词 beauclerk
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Beauclerkn.

/ˈbəʊklɑːk/
Forms: Also 1500s -cleark, 1600s -clark, 1800s -clerc.
Etymology: < French beau fine + clerc < Latin clēricus ‘clergyman,’ hence ‘scholar,’ as opposed to the uneducated laity: see clerk n.
Now Historical.
A learned man, a scholar. (Given as a surname to Henry I.)
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > scholarly knowledge, erudition > learned person, scholar > [noun] > book-learned
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c1367 Eulog. Hist. (1863) III. v. ci. 40 Henricus cognomento Beauclerk.
1586 W. Webbe Disc. Eng. Poetrie sig. C.ii v Henry the first King of that name in England..was named by his surname Beaucleark.
1641 J. Jackson True Evangelical Temper iii. 206 Erasmus and Ferus, two Beauclerks.
1856 C. Knight Pop. Hist. Eng. I. xvi. 218 The brutal Rufus, or the crafty Beau Clerc.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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