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clerkship|ˈklɑːkʃɪp|
[f. clerk n. + -ship.]
†1. The clerical order, the clergy. Obs. rare.
c1205Lay. 10203 Þer ouer ærchebiscopes þat clærcscipe to rihten.
2. The office or position of a clerk:
a. Eccl.
1488Plumpton Corr. 66 That my brother..myght have..the clarkship, trustyng to God he should please the parishioners. 1670G. H. Hist. Cardinals i. iii. 90 To dispose of what Benefices, Clerkships, Chaplainships..fall within their several Churches. 1720Swift Fates Clergymen, He sold the clarkship of his parish, when it became vacant.
b. (See clerk 5, 6.)
1531in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxford 100 The Clerkeschypp of the markett. 1648C. Walker Hist. Indep. i. 168 The Clerkship of the Assize in Norfolke. 1691Wood Ath. Oxon. (R.), Which Thomas [Talbot] being promoted to the clerkship of the records in the Tower of London. 1871Carlyle in Mrs. Carlyle's Lett. I. 247 We got him..into some small clerkship. 1888Daily News 19 Sept. 6/4 An account of French clerks, and how they are prepared for the career of clerkship.
3. Book-learning, scholarship. arch.
1648Goodwin in Jenkyn Blind Guide Pref. A iij, My defect..of Clerkship. 1672Marvell Reh. Transp. i. 5 The Laiety [need] no more Clerkship than to save them from Hanging. 1829Q. Rev. XXXIX. 370 His clerkship..would hardly, in old times, have saved a felon from the gallows. 1841D'Israeli Amen. Let. (1867) 112 The more learned who displayed their clerkship by their Latinity.
4. The function of an office clerk; writing with good penmanship and orthography.
1550MS. Acc. St. John's Hosp. Canterb., Payd to Ryve for clarkis shyppe iiijs. 1610W. Folkingham Art of Survey i. i. 2 The Symboliographie or Clarke-ship, and penning of the Suruey. 1710W. Mather Yng. Man's Comp. (1727) 3 To know when rightly to use [small letters], and when [capitals], is the first step towards good Clerkship. |