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noun

Clerk n.

A clergyman or ecclesiastic. (Obs.) "All persons were styled clerks that served in the church of Christ."

A man who could read; a scholar; a learned person; a man of letters. (Obs.) "Every one that could read... being accounted a clerk." "He was no great clerk, but he was perfectly well versed in the interests of Europe."

A parish officer, being a layman who leads in reading the responses of the Episcopal church service, and otherwise assists in it. (Eng.) "And like unlettered clerk still cry "Amen"."

One employed to keep records or accounts; a scribe; an accountant; as, the clerk of a court; a town clerk. "The clerk of the crown... withdrew the bill." Note: In some cases, clerk is synonymous with secretary. A clerk is always an officer subordinate to a higher officer, board, corporation, or person; whereas a secretary may be either a subordinate or the head of an office or department.

An assistant in a shop or store. (U. S.)

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"Clerk" Quotes from Famous Books

... millionaire, and one of those men who are always successful, and who seem able by the help of their money to arrange matters that would appear to be in the province of God alone. This Penautier was connected in business with a man called d'Alibert, his first clerk, who died all of a sudden of apoplexy. The attack was known to Penautier sooner than to his own family: then the papers about the conditions of partnership disappeared, no one knew how, and d'Alibert's wife and child were ruined. D'Alibert's brother-in-law, who was Sieur ...

— CELEBRATED CRIMES, COMPLETE - THE MARQUISE DE BRINVILLIERS • ALEXANDRE DUMAS, PERE

... N. scholar, connoisseur, savant, pundit, schoolman[obs3], professor, graduate, wrangler; academician, academist[obs3]; master of arts, doctor, licentitate, gownsman; philosopher, master of math; scientist, clerk; sophist, sophister[obs3]; linguist; glossolinguist, philologist; philologer[obs3]; lexicographer, glossographer; grammarian; litterateur[Fr], literati, dilettanti, illuminati, cogniscenti[It]; fellow, Hebraist, lexicologist, ...

— Roget's Thesaurus • Peter Mark Roget

... in the States. That the present Sir William Beauvoir did about this time actually arrive on the Pacific Coast in company with the distinguished scientific man above mentioned, we have every reason to believe: we have even direct evidence on the subject. A former junior clerk who had left us at about the same period as the disappearance of the elder son of our late client, accosted our Mr. Dick when the latter was in Paris last summer, and informed him (our Mr. Dick) that he (the former junior ...

— Stories by American Authors, Volume 1 • Various

... he walked along the shell road to the Cafe Bolivar, and back again to the consulate. There, as he entered the outer office, Jose, the Colombian clerk, would rise ...

— My Buried Treasure • Richard Harding Davis

... I know what to do with the money. Listen, dear. You do not want to go on slaving in an office until you are old and ugly. And Nolan is quite right, you certainly can not marry a grubby clerk in a law office." ...

— Eve to the Rescue • Ethel Hueston

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