单词 | unclerklike |
释义 | unclerklikeadj.adv. Not appropriate to or characteristic of a clerk; unlike a clerk. In earlier use: †unscholarly (cf. clerk n. 4) (obsolete). Also (and in earliest use) as adv.: †in an unscholarly way (obsolete rare). ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > [adjective] > not unclerkly1573 unclerklike1633 unclerical1677 uncanonical1747 unecclesiastical1834 anticlerical1845 1633 E. Kellett Misc. Divinitie ii. ix. 74 To this he answereth most unclerklike. 1647 Bp. J. Taylor Θεολογία Ἐκλεκτική vi. 118 Such an emendation as is a plain contradiction to the sense, and that so un-clerk-like. 1660 J. Gadbury Νεόφυτο-ἀστρόλογος 8 Having proved himself a perfect Ignorant in the Art he professeth, by his unclerklike and unwarrantable Predictions. 1823 Morning Chron. 27 Oct. Mr. Swabey then proceeds to narrate the subject matter of complaint against Mr. Lawson, in the irreverent un-clerk-like language ascribed to him. 1913 F. N. S. Allen Invaders vi. 76 Written in a most individual and quite unclerklike hand. 1998 M. Lovelace Countess in Buckskin xi. 180 Mikhail, looking boyish and unclerklike with his sandy hair all askew. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.adv.1633 |
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