a. and adv. [f. as prec. + LIKE.] Like a clerk or scholar; clerkly, scholarly.
1638. Penit. Conf., vii. (1657), 125. The Pulpit may flourish with such Clerk-like collations.
1641. Vind. Smectymnuus, 4. So much clark-like ignorance.
1646. E. F[isher], Mod. Divinity, 229. By clerkelike cunning.
b. as adv. Like a ‘clerk,’ in a clerkly way.
1603. Knolles, Hist. Turks, 923 (L.). Yet did every one of them … clerke-like dissemble their severall imaginations.
1611. Shaks., Wint. T., I. ii. 392. Clerke-like experienc’d.
