a. A student of the Bible. b. spec. The title of a class of students in certain colleges at Oxford, having the duty of reading the lessons in chapel, and of saying grace in Hall.
1626. Bernard, Isle of Man (ed. 10), 12. Thus Hue and Crie is written by the Bible-clarke.
1650. J. Cotton, Sing. Psalms, 21. In some Cathedrall Churches … the Bible-Clerks doe sing their Chapters out of the old and New Testament.
a. 1672. Wood, Life (1848), 112. The bible-clerks of Merton Coll.
