Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Like a churchman; belonging to or befitting a churchman.
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Examples
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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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