Word Meanings - CLERKLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to a clerk. Cranmer.

Related words: (words related to CLERKLY)

• CLERKLINESS
  Scholarship.
• CLERK-ALE
  A feast for the benefit of the parish clerk. T. Warton.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• CLERKLIKE
  Scholarlike. Shak.
• CLERKLY
  Of or pertaining to a clerk. Cranmer.
• 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.
• CLERKLESS
  Unlearned. E. Waterhouse.
• CLERKSHIP
  State, quality, or business of a clerk.
• NIXIE CLERK
  A post-office clerk in charge of the nixies.
• 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.
• APPERTAIN
  To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate. Things appertaining to this life. Hooker. Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth. Lev. vi. 5. (more info) appartenir, fr. L. appertinere; ad + pertinere to reach