[f. as prec. + -IST.] A supporter of clericalism.
1881. New York Herald, 17 Feb., 7/1. At Berlin … a clericalist has been elected Vice-President.
attrib. 1885. Fremantle, Alford, in Dict. Nat. Biog., I. 283/2. The clericalist movement of the years 1835–42.
