| 释义 |
clerk-like, a. and adv.
[f. as prec. + like.]
Like a ‘clerk’ or scholar; clerkly, scholarly.
1638Penit. Conf. vii. (1657) 125 The Pulpit may flourish with such Clerk-like collations. 1641Vind. Smectymnuus 4 So much clark-like ignorance. 1646E. Fisher Mod. Divinity 229 By clerkelike cunning.
b. as adv. Like a ‘clerk’, in a clerkly way.
1603Knolles Hist. Turks 923 (L.) Yet did every one of them..clerke-like dissemble their severall imaginations. 1611Shakes. Wint. T. i. ii. 392 Clerke-like experienc'd. |