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Definition of Clerisies
1. clerisy [n] - See also: clerisy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Clerisies
Literary usage of Clerisies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Table Talk and Omniana of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With Additional Table by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1888)
"The Popes always prosecuted, with rancorous hatred, the national clerisies, the
married clergy, and disliked the universities which grew out of the old ..."
2. Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge (1836)
"The Popes always persecuted, with rancorous hatred, the national clerisies, the
married clergy, and disliked the universities which grew out of the old ..."