- A clergyman or ecclesiastic. - A man who could read; a scholar; a learned person; a man of
letters. - A parish officer, being a layman who leads in reading the
responses of the Episcopal church service, and otherwise assists in it. - One employed to keep records or accounts; a scribe; an
accountant; as, the clerk of a court; a town clerk. - An assistant in a shop or store.
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