单词 | unclerkly |
释义 | unclerklyadj. Not clerkly; not befitting or characteristic of a clerk. In earlier use: †unscholarly (cf. clerk n. 4) (obsolete). ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > [adjective] > not unclerkly1573 unclerklike1633 unclerical1677 uncanonical1747 unecclesiastical1834 anticlerical1845 1573 J. Bridges Supremacie Christian Princes 696 Neither could you vpbraide this mistaking of the name to the Bishop, for vnclerkly or vnfaythfull handling as ye do. 1624 D. Featley Romish Fisher Caught 145 By your vnclerkly Sophistry. 1674 P. Walsh Hist. & Vindic. Loyal Formulary Ep. p. xxxiv Owen Mac Egan..giving up his last breath even yet in a much more unepiscopal, unclerkly, unseemly manner. 1875 R. D. Blackmore Alice Lorraine II. i. 4 This unclerkly clerk had a good supper. 1895 Athenæum 4 May 567/2 The manuscript..was a very unclerkly one. 1963 Times 18 June 14/3 Written in a variety of clerkly (and unclerkly) hands.., the documents shown of are of absorbing interest. 2006 S. Collini Absent Minds xii. 284 Such classically unclerkly behaviour as signing manifestos and petitions. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † unclerklyadv. Obsolete (rare in later use). In a manner not befitting or characteristic of a clerk. In earlier use: †in an unscholarly manner (cf. clerk n. 4) (obsolete). ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > [adverb] > not unclerklyc1454 undivinely1618 undivinelike1649 unecclesiastically1767 unclerically1780 c1454 R. Pecock Folewer to Donet 226 (MED) Noon clerk, good or symple, replie aȝens me..as late in lijk caas greet stroutyng and noysyng in replicacioun haþ be maad aȝens me in oþir mater, and þat mych vnclerkli. 1531 S. Vaughan in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1846) 3rd Ser. II. 208 You wrot that the answer whiche he made to the Chancellour was unclerkly done. 1567 T. Stapleton Counterblast iii. xviii. f. 289 Ye demeane your selfe so vnhonestly, and vnclerkly in the principall matter. 1604 W. Stoughton Assertion True & Christian Church-policie 237 Well how vnclerkly..this Clercke then aunswered..he could not obteine the institution, which hee came for. 1608 T. Bell Iesuits Antepast iii. 15 Our masked Iesuite answereth roundly, though impudently and vnclerkly. 1872 Cuba (N.Y.) True Patriot 19 Jan. 1/3 His words were like those of the first Napoleon, very unclerkly put together. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < adj.1573adv.c1454 |
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