v. nonce-wd. [f. CLERGY + -FY.] trans. To make clerical; see quot.
1589. Warner, Alb. Eng., VI. xxxi. (1612), 152. I faine My selfe a priest … And tould how fine and faire a life our Clergie-Femes inioy, And how our leisure fitted Loue. And let it fit (quoth she) To such as lust for loue, Sir Clarke; you clergefie not me.
