Bible clerk (biblklerk)

1. In English universities, a student whose duty it originally was to read the Bible during meals: now often required to note absences from chapel.-2. The holder of a certain scholarship in Corpus Christ i College, Cambridge, established in 1473. Bible-oath (bi'bl-ōth), n. An oath on the Bible; a sacred obligation. So long as it was not a Bible - Oath , we may break it with Congreve, Way of the World, v. 2. a safe conscience. I doubted the correctne of your statement, though backed by your lordship's Bible - oath . Thackeray , Virgin i ans, xcii.