Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Like a churchman; belonging to or befitting a churchman.

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Examples

  • His abundant hair, steel-grey, slightly crisped under his hat, not curling exactly, but with a becoming twist in it -- clerical, yet not too clerical, a man given to no extremes, decorously churchmanlike, yet liberal and tolerant of the world.

    Phoebe, Junior 1862

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