What is "unclerical"

Usage examples of "unclerical".

The high priest used language that would have been considered unclerical even among the Hulguns.

Such recreations are now unclerical in the highest degree, or if not in the highest, they are only one degree less so than hunting.

The vicar did look at his bones, examining the brute with a very knowing and unclerical manner.

She had made up her mind that, great as her influence ought to be, she was not the proper person to speak to Mr Robarts as to his pernicious, unclerical habits, and she would not now depart from her resolve by attempting to prove that she was the proper person.

He smiled too, and fought a ridiculous and unclerical impulse to put a finger very lightly on one of those tiny coils of hair at the nape of her neck which had sprung from her severely rolled French pleat.

Dean was burly and unclerical in appearance, with a clean-shaven, humorous face, and eyes that looked in opposite directions.

She drew from her gloved palm her offering and extended it towards Brother Weldon, who with unclerical haste and noise took the office.

It has always been one of my unclerical sermons to myself, that that remark which Peter made on seeing the vision of a single hour, ought to be made by us all, in contemplating every panoramic change in the long Vision we call life--other things superficially, but this always in our depths.

He was a quaint little figure in his black, unclerical suit, and the warm cloth cap of a like hue drawn carefully over a wide expanse of baldness which Nature had imposed upon him.

The pasteur, in a coat of unclerical cut, and his wife, in black silk, received us in the parlor, which was heated by a handsome porcelain stove, and simply furnished, much like such a room at home.

I could see nothing, but certainly thought that that unclerical little Welsh pony, Jenkins, was there.

One of these was once sharply rebuked by his broker for his unclerical conduct, and was advised, if he wished to carry on his speculations further, to go into the market himself, as the broker declined to be any longer the representative of a man who was ashamed of his business.

Did you hear about the case the other day when someone smeared the stuff they call Truth or Consequences' on the pulpit rail of a cathedral and a respected bishop said some highly unclerical things to his congregation?