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Beauclerk Now Hist.|ˈbəʊklɑːk|
Also 6 -cleark, 7 -clark, 9 -clerc.
[a. F. beau fine + clerc:—L. clēricus ‘clergyman,’ hence ‘scholar,’ as opposed to the uneducated laity: see clerk.]
A learned man, a scholar. (Given as a surname to Henry I.)
c1367Eulog. Hist. (1863) III. v. ci. 40 Henricus cognomento Beauclerk. 1586Webbe Eng. Poetrie (Arb.) 31 Henry the first King of that name in England..was named by his surname Beaucleark. 1641J. Jackson True Evang. T. iii. 206 Erasmus and Ferus, two Beauclerks. 1856Knight Pop. Hist. Eng. I. xvi. 218 The brutal Rufus, or the crafty Beau Clerc. |