Word Meanings - CLERK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

a priest, or AS. clerc, cleric, clerk, priest, fr. L. clericus, fr. 1. A clergyman or ecclesiastic. All persons were styled clerks that served in the church of Christ. Ayliffe. 2. A man who could read; a scholar; a learned person; a man of letters.

Additional info about word: CLERK

a priest, or AS. clerc, cleric, clerk, priest, fr. L. clericus, fr. 1. A clergyman or ecclesiastic. All persons were styled clerks that served in the church of Christ. Ayliffe. 2. A man who could read; a scholar; a learned person; a man of letters. "Every one that could read . . . being accounted a clerk." Blackstone. He was no great clerk, but he was perfectly well versed in the interests of Europe. Burke. 3. A parish officer, being a layman who leads in reading the responses of the Episcopal church service, and otherwise assists in it. Hook. And like unlettered clerk still cry "Amen". Shak. 4. One employed to keep records or accounts; a scribe; an accountant; as, the clerk of a court; a town clerk. The clerk of the crown . . . withdrew the bill. Strype. Note: In some cases, clerk is synonymous with secretary. A clerk is always an officer subordinate to a higher officer, board, corporation, or person; whereas a secretary may be either a subordinate or the head of an office or department. 5. An assistant in a shop or store.

Related words: (words related to CLERK)

• PRIESTLIKE
  Priestly. B. Jonson.
• CLERICALISM
  An excessive devotion to the interests of the sacerdotal order; undue influence of the clergy; sacerdotalism.
• CHURCHLINESS
  Regard for the church.
• SERVING
  a & n. from Serve. Serving board , a flat piece of wood used in serving ropes. -- Serving maid, a female servant; a maidservant. -- Serving mallet , a wooden instrument shaped like a mallet, used in serving ropes. -- Serving man, a male servant,
• CHURCHLIKE
  Befitting a church or a churchman; becoming to a clergyman. Shak.
• CHRISTIAN
  1. One who believes, or professes or is assumed to believe, in Jesus Christ, and the truth as taught by Him; especially, one whose inward and outward life is conformed to the doctrines of Christ. The disciples were called Christians first
• STYLOMASTOID
  Of or pertaining to the styloid and mastoid processes of the temporal bone.
• STYLOPS
  A genus of minute insects parasitic, in their larval state, on bees and wasps. It is the typical genus of the group Strepsiptera, formerly considered a distinct order, but now generally referred to the Coleoptera. See Strepsiptera.
• PERSONNEL
  The body of persons employed in some public service, as the army, navy, etc.; -- distinguished from matériel.
• PERSONIFICATION
  A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstract idea is represented as animated, or endowed with personality; prosopopas, the floods clap their hands. "Confusion heards his voice." Milton. (more info) 1. The act of personifying;
• SERVO-MOTOR
  A relay apparatus; specif.: An auxiliary motor, regulated by a hand lever, for quickly and easily moving the reversing gear of a large marine engine into any desired position indicated by that of the hand lever, which controls the valve
• STYLOMMATA
  See STYLOMMATOPHORA
• CHRISTEN
  1. To baptize and give a Christian name to. 2. To give a name; to denominate. "Christen the thing what you will." Bp. Burnet. 3. To Christianize. Jer. Taylor. 4. To use for the first time.
• STYLISTIC
  Of or pertaining to style in language. "Stylistic trifles." J. A. Symonds. The great stylistic differences in the works ascribed to him . G. P. Marsh.
• STYLET
  A small poniard; a stiletto. An instrument for examining wounds and fistulas, and for passing setons, and the like; a probe, -- called also specillum. A stiff wire, inserted in catheters or other tubular instruments to maintain their shape
• SERVILELY
  In a servile manner; slavishly.
• CHRISTIANLY
  Christianlike. Longfellow.
• CHRISTIAN ERA
  The era in use in all Christian countries, which was intended to commence with the birth of Christ. The era as now established was first used by Dionysius Exiguus , who placed the birth of Christ on the 25th of December in the year of Rome 754,
• SCHOLARSHIP
  1. The character and qualities of a scholar; attainments in science or literature; erudition; learning. A man of my master's . . . great scholarship. Pope. 2. Literary education. Any other house of scholarship. Milton. 3. Maintenance for a scholar;
• ECCLESIASTIC
  A person in holy orders, or consecrated to the service of the church and the ministry of religion; a clergyman; a priest. From a humble ecclesiastic, he was subsequently preferred to the highest dignities of the church. Prescott.
• DISSERVE
  To fail to serve; to do injury or mischief to; to damage; to hurt; to harm. Have neither served nor disserved the interests of any party. Jer. Taylor. (more info) Etym:
• RESERVE
  1. To keep back; to retain; not to deliver, make over, or disclose. "I have reserved to myself nothing." Shak. 2. Hence, to keep in store for future or special use; to withhold from present use for another purpose or time; to keep; to retain. Gen.
• ARAEOSTYLE
  See INTERCOLUMNIATION
• CYCLOSTYLE
  A contrivance for producing manifold copies of writing or drawing. The writing or drawing is done with a style carrying a small wheel at the end which makes minute punctures in the paper, thus converting it into a stencil. Copies are transferred
• DESERVEDNESS
  Meritoriousness.
• ANTICHRISTIANISM; ANTICHRISTIANITY
  Opposition or contrariety to the Christian religion.
• CONSERVATIONAL
  Tending to conserve; preservative.
• SURSTYLE
  To surname.
• HALF-LEARNED
  Imperfectly learned.
• AMPHIPROSTYLE
  Doubly prostyle; having columns at each end, but not at the sides. -- n.