clerklyとは

意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

clerkly (comparative clerklier, superlative clerkliest)

1. Of clerks; befitting a clerk.

   the clerkly life

   • 1902, Fred Whishaw, Mazeppa, London: Chatto & Windus, Chapter 12, pp. 104-105,^[1]

     Therefore, desiring to keep my place in the young Tsar’s regard, I did not speak too highly of Mazeppa, though I allowed him to be a shrewd and capable person, of clerkly rather than military attainments.

   • 1938, Graham Greene, Brighton Rock, London: Heinemann, 1962, Part Five, Chapter 4, p. 193,^[2]

     Ida Arnold swivelled her eyes round the elegant furnishing of the Pompadour Boudoir. They picked out like a searchlight a cushion, a couch, the thin clerkly mouth of the man opposite her.

   • 1988, Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming-Pool Library, Penguin, Chapter 11, p. 255,^[3]

     I have promised him that when he is released, early next year, I will find him something to do: a job in a gymnasium, if possible, where his feeling for men and physical exercise can be fulfilled, rather than baulked and denied in some clerkly work.

2. (obsolete) Scholarly.
   • 1567, Thomas Stapleton, A Counterblast to M. Hornes Vayne Blaste against M. Fekenham, Louvain, Chapter 6, p. 36,^[4]

     For notwithstanding al your great brags and this your clerkly booke, ye knowe not nor euer shall knowe, but that the Pope is the supreame head of the Churche.

   • 1620, Joseph Hall, The Honor of the Married Clergie, London: H. Fetherstone, Book 1, Section 22, p. 121,^[5]

     The words are Gratians, that Copula Sacerdotalis vel consanguincorum, The marriage or (as this Clerkly Grammarian translates it) the carnall copulation of Priests, or kinsfolkes is not forbidden by any Legall, Euangelicall, or Apostolicall authoritie, but by Ecclesiasticall Law it is forbidden.

   • 1663, Edward Waterhouse, Fortescutus Illustratus, or, A Commentary on that Nervous Treatise, De Laudibus Legum Angliæ, written by Sir John Fortescue, Knight, London: Thomas Dicas, p. 340,^[6]

     […] now Clerks and Clerici have divers acceptations, generally all men literate were thus called, and because Church men were mostly of old such officers, therefore all men that are Bookish are said to be Clerkly.

同意語

• (of clerks): clerkish, clerky

副詞

clerkly (comparative more clerkly, superlative most clerkly)

1. (obsolete) In a scholarly manner.
   • 1549, Thomas Chaloner (translator), The Praise of Folie by Erasmus, London: Thomas Berthelet,^[7]

     If these woordis to some seme spoken to clerkly, goe to, I will expounde theim more plainely.

   • 1567, Arthur Golding, The XV. Bookes of P. Ouidius Naso, Entytuled Metamorphosis, translated oute of Latin into English meeter, London, “Too the Reader,”^[8]

     For this doo lerned persons déeme, of Ouids present woorke:

     That in no one of all his bookes the which he wrate, doo lurke

     Mo darke and secret misteries, mo counselles wyse and sage,

     Mo good ensamples, mo reprooues of vyce in youth and age,

     Mo fyne inuentions too delight, mo matters clerkly knit,

     No nor more straunge varietie too shew a lerned wit.

   • c. 1590, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 2, Act III, Scene 1,^[9]

     Hath he not twit our sovereign lady here

     With ignominious words, though clerkly couch’d,

     As if she had suborned some to swear

     False allegations to o’erthrow his state?

   • 1783, Thomas Holcroft, Human Happiness: or The Sceptic, London: L. Davis et al., Canto 5, p. 56,^[10]

     But I can prove, by reading Clerkly,

     From Leibnitz, Malbranche, Bayle, and Berkley,

     Things far more strange, friend Will, than these;