half-cleric

Updated: May 10, 2025

Mr John Chadwick was one of those gentlemen, two or three of whom are to be seen in connexion with every see, who seem to be hybrids, half-lay, half-cleric. They dress like clergymen, and affect that mixture of clerical solemnity and clerical waggishness which is generally to be found among minor canons and vicar chorals of a cathedral.

Anthony Trollope - The Last Chronicle of Barset