v. nonce-wd. [ad. med.L. clērificāre, f. late L. clēr-us: see CLERIC, and -FY.] trans. To make clerical. So Clerification.
1861. Sat. Rev., 9 March, 243/1. It [Lord Palmerston’s conversion] has (no doubt) sanctified him, but it has also clerified him—to coin a new word for what, happily for the human race is a new fact. Ibid. (1867), 6 July, 10/2. It would of course be impertinent in us to enter on the more serious side of the process of clerification.
