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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | Copyright

clerk ordained minister of the Church XI; learned man, scholar XIII; lay officer of a church (e.g. singing c., parish c.); one having charge of records, correspondence, or accounts XVI. Late OE. cler(i)c — ecclL. clēricus CLERIC; this merged with ME. clerc — (O)F. clerc, of the same orig. The sp. clark appears XV.
Hence clerkly adj. XVI; modelled on clerkly adv. XV, which is after late L. clēricāliter; see -LY 1, -LY 2.

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