[f. CLERIC + -ISM.] Clerkhood as a principle and practice; a system founded upon clergymen.
1878. C. W. Eliot, in N. Amer. Rev., CXXVI. 224. The English universities have suffered deeply from … clericism, celibacy, and sinecurism.
[f. CLERIC + -ISM.] Clerkhood as a principle and practice; a system founded upon clergymen.
1878. C. W. Eliot, in N. Amer. Rev., CXXVI. 224. The English universities have suffered deeply from … clericism, celibacy, and sinecurism.
