Word Meanings - CLERK-ALE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A feast for the benefit of the parish clerk. T. Warton.

Related words: (words related to CLERK-ALE)

• BENEFIT SOCIETY
  A society or association formed for mutual insurance, as among tradesmen or in labor unions, to provide for relief in sickness, old age, and for the expenses of burial. Usually called friendly society in Great Britain.
• CLERKLINESS
  Scholarship.
• PARISHEN
  A parishioner. Chaucer.
• CLERK-ALE
  A feast for the benefit of the parish clerk. T. Warton.
• CLERKLIKE
  Scholarlike. Shak.
• BENEFITER
  One who confers a benefit; -- also, one who receives a benefit.
• PARISH
  parosse, paroiche, F. paroisse, L. parochia, corrupted fr. paroecia, That circuit of ground committed to the charge of one parson or vicar, or other minister having cure of souls therein. Cowell. The same district, constituting a civil
• CLERKLY
  Of or pertaining to a clerk. Cranmer.
• FEAST
  festival, F. fête, fr. L. festum, pl. festa, fr. festus joyful, 1. A festival; a holiday; a solemn, or more commonly, a joyous, anniversary. The seventh day shall be a feast to the Lord. Ex. xiii. 6. Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year
• FEASTER
  1. One who fares deliciously. 2. One who entertains magnificently. Johnson.
• PARISHIONAL
  Of or pertaining to a parish; parochial. Bp. Hall.
• PARISHIONER
  One who belongs to, or is connected with, a parish.
• 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.
• BENEFIT
  Natural advantaged; endowments; accomplishments. "The benefits of your own country." Shak. Benefit of clergy. See under Clergy. Syn. -- Profit; service; use; avail. See Advantage. (more info) L. benefactum; bene well + factum, p. p. of 1.
• FEASTFUL
  Festive; festal; joyful; sumptuous; luxurious. "Feastful days." Milton. -- Feast"ful*ly, adv.
• CLERKLESS
  Unlearned. E. Waterhouse.
• CLERKSHIP
  State, quality, or business of a clerk.
• OUTFEAST
  To exceed in feasting.
• NIXIE CLERK
  A post-office clerk in charge of the nixies.
• BULLFEAST
  See BULLFIGHT
• OUTPARISH
  A parish lying without the walls of, or in a remote part of, a town. Graunt.
• SMELL-FEAST
  1. One who is apt to find and frequent good tables; a parasite; a sponger. The epicure and the smell-feast. South. 2. A feast at which the guests are supposed to feed upon the odors only of the viands.
• BOOKING CLERK
  A clerk who registers passengers, baggage, etc., for conveyance, as by railway or steamship, or who sells passage tickets at a booking office.