clerk Copy link Outline I. A clergymanII. An accountant or other writer • clerk: I. A clergyman: q. v. II. An accountant or other writer: actŭārius; scrība: v. accountant, secretary. Phr.: to be a c., scriptum facere, Liv.: v. clerkship: c. of the market, praefectus annonae (but only with ref. to provisions): Tac.; in the Greek phraseology of Pl., ăgŏrānŏmus (= ἀγορανόμος): c. of the customs, scriba portorii (Kr.): c. of the works (in building), (?) exactor operum (strictly a kind of taskmaster): v. ex. in Forcell. s. v.: parish c., (?) minister sacrorum.