a. Obs. rare–1. [f. CLERGY + -IC + -AL.] Pertaining to the clergy.

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1632.  Lithgow, Trav., X. 437. So concludeth this Clergicall corruption there.

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1641.  Milton, Animadv. (1851), 241. Those Clergicall faults which he could not conceale.

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