a. Also clergyable. [f. CLERGY + -ABLE.] Law. Of an offence: Admitting benefit of clergy; in regard to which benefit of clergy may be pleaded.
1762. Jacob, Law Dict., s.v. Benefit of Clergy (L.), Offences … which would be clergyable if committed by the land.
1769. Blackstone, Comm., IV. 320. If … his offence is clergyable, he shall have the benefit of his clergy.
1886. Athenæum, 27 March, 433. So long as murder was a clergiable felony.
¶ Used as = CLERGIAL, learned, scholarly.
1488. Caxton, Spec. Vitæ Christi, H iiij. A longe processe and clergyable [so edd. 1517, 1530; MS. 1410 clergyall].
