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Large church making the scholar get attached to a vitreous mineral (8)

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I believe the answer is:

basilica

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'large church' is the definition.

'attached to a vitreous mineral' is the wordplay.
'attached to' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'vitreous mineral' becomes 'basilic' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'a' put after 'basilic' is 'BASILICA'.

'making the scholar get' is the link.
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(Other definitions for basilica that I've seen before include "Bails CIA out of the large church" , "Magnificent church" , "Large (Roman Catholic) church" , "Large church building" , "Romanesque church" .)

I've seen this clue in The Hindu.
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