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His critics agree that a call from a church is rarely rescinded, but say that Merriam's unclerical behavior has forced the presby tery to take drastic action.

From Time Magazine Archive

There was, moreover, the curate, "bonnie, pleasant, light-hearted, good-tempered, generous, careless, crafty, fickle, and unclerical," to add piquancy to the situation.

From Emily Brontë by Robinson, A. Mary F. (Agnes Mary Frances)

The light of Sunday morning, streaming into the room, fell upon a weird, dishevelled figure, that still stared fixedly at the wall, and every now and then muttered strange and wholly unclerical words and phrases.

From The Idler Magazine, Volume III., July 1893 An Illustrated Monthly by Various

His first thought was a selfish, unclerical one, and sudden consciousness sent the color to his forehead as he answered her, though he spoke quite calmly.

From That Lass O' Lowrie's 1877 by Burnett, Frances Hodgson

Peter was shocked at his lordship's indulgence in so unclerical a sport.

From Notes and Queries, Number 229, March 18, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by Various