{ "dictype": "WikiDicScrap", "error": false, "code": 200, "json": { "type": "wiki", "pronunciations": { "phonetic": [ "klərk" ], "listenurl": [ { "lang": "Audio (GA)", "url": "" } ] }, "meansorg": { "etymologies": [ "From Middle English clerc, from Old English clerc, from Late Latin clēricus (“priest, clergyman, cleric”, also generally “learned man, clerk”), from Ancient Greek κληρικός (klērikós, “of the clergy”, adj. in church jargon), from κλῆρος (klêros, “lot, inheritance”, originally “shard used in casting lots”). Doublet of cleric." ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Noun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "One who occupationally provides assistance by working with records, accounts, letters, etc.; an office worker.\n1879, W S Gilbert; Arthur Sullivan, composer, “When I Was a Lad”, in H.M.S. Pinafore;  , San Francisco: Bacon & Company,  , →OCLC, page 10:As office boy I made such a markThat they gave me the post of a junior clerk.\n1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate , New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, , →OCLC:Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language, he expressed the important words by an initial, a medial, or a final consonant, and made scratches for all the words between; his clerks, however, understood him very well.", "submean": [ "A salesclerk; a person who serves customers in a store or market.", "A law clerk.", "An employee at a hotel who deals with guests." ] }, { "mean": "(Quakerism) A facilitator of a Quaker meeting for business affairs." }, { "mean": "(archaic) In the Church of England, the layman that assists in the church service, especially in reading the responses (also called parish clerk).\n1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :God save the King! Will no man say, amen? / Am I both priest and clerk? Well then, amen." }, { "mean": "(dated) A cleric or clergyman (the legal title for clergy of the Church of England is \"Clerk in Holy Orders\", still used in legal documents and cherished by some of their number)." }, { "mean": "(obsolete) A scholar.\n13th century, Traditional carol,\nAnd all was for an appel, an appel that he toke/As clerkès finden written in their boke." } ] }, { "name": "Verb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "To act as a clerk, to perform the duties or functions of a clerk\n1934, George Orwell, chapter 1, in Burmese Days‎: for three years he had worked in the stinking labyrinth of the Mandalay bazaars, clerking for the rice merchants and sometimes stealing.\n1956, Jean Stafford, \"A Reading Problem\" in The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford, New York: E.P. Dutton, 1984, p. 332,\nIn the winter, they lived in a town called Hoxie, Arkansas, where Evangelist Gerlash clerked in the Buttorf drugstore and preached and baptized on the side.\nThe law school graduate clerked for the supreme court judge for the summer." } ] }, { "name": "Further_reading", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "clerk in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. C. 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