unclericaladj.

1677 L. Addison Modest Plea for Clergy xii. 110 If the Clergy are conscientiously careful not to dissipate the Spiritual Patrimony in any needless profusions.., unclerical splendor, [etc.].

1711 W. Nicholls Suppl. Comm. Bk. Common Prayer sig. E4/2 To wear an unclerical and undecent Habit.

1762 S. Foote Orators i. 20 Many individuals..are oblig'd to have recourse to very unclerical professions for the support of themselves and families.

1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xxxiv. 301 I am a martyr to duty and to your odious unclerical habit of hunting.

1865 A. D. Whitney Gayworthys ii. 23 A very unclerical gesture of—to say the least—impatience.

1923 H. G. Wells Men like Gods vi. 83 The naked beauty of dead Greenlake had surprised him into an expression of unclerical appreciation.

1998 R. Hill On Beulah Height (1999) iv. iv. 304 His present unclerical garb of singlet and shorts made him look more Apolline acolyte than Anglican divine.

1780 H. Croft Abbey of Kilkhampton II. 121 Lord H—— gave Orders to his Taylor for the Suit thus unclerically ornamented.

1841 Satirist 11 Apr. 110/3 He emphatically, but rather unclerically, remarked, that ‘the Dean was a d——d fool’.

1997 Sunday Times (Nexis) 28 Dec. Holloway unclerically described critics of his book as ‘the meanest minded sods’.