a. Obs. Also -eal, -ialle, -yall(e. [f. clergie, CLERGY + -AL. It may have existed in OF.] Clerkly, scholarly, learned, subtle.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Chan. Yem. Prol. & T., 199. Oure termes been so clergial [v.r. clergeal] and so queynte.
a. 1400[?]. Morte Arth., 1758. With cornettes and clarions, and clergialle notes.
c. 1410. Love, Bonavent. Mirr., xxiii. 52 (Gibbs MS.). He maketh … a longe processe and clergyall [Sherard MS. clergial].
a. 1420. Occleve, De Reg. Princ., 2150. The steppes clergyalle Of thise clerkes thre.
