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Definition of Clerical

1. Adjective. Of or relating to clerks. "Clerical work"

2. Adjective. Of or relating to the clergy. "Clerical collar"

3. Adjective. Appropriate for or engaged in office work. "The clerical staff"

Definition of Clerical

1. a. Of or pertaining to the clergy; suitable for the clergy.

Definition of Clerical

1. Adjective. of or relating to clerks or their work ¹

2. Adjective. of or relating to the clergy ¹

3. Noun. A member of the clergy. ¹

4. Noun. (context: UK civil service) A task which has to be completed on paper, form, or performed offline. ¹

5. Noun. (context: UK civil service) A manual calculation or payment from the above, usually made due to system failure. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Clerical

1. a cleric [n -S] - See also: cleric

Lexicographical Neighbors of Clerical

clergeon clergeons clergial clergical clergies clergy clergyable clergyman clergymen clergypeople

clergyperson clergypersons clergywoman clergywomen cleric clerical (current term) clerical collar clerical collars clerical spectacles clericalism

clericalisms clericalist clericalists clerically clericals clericity clerick clerics clerid clerid beetle

Literary usage of Clerical

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The English Historical Review by Mandell Creighton, Justin Winsor, Samuel Rawson Gardiner, Reginald Lane Poole, John Goronwy Edwards (1892)
"But a letter written by Sir John Vanbrugh in 1724 '- in favour of the vicar of Scarborough reads like a sneer at a vice which was then peculiarly clerical, ..."

2. A Source Book for Ancient Church History: From the Apostolic Age to the by Joseph Cullen Ayer (1913)
"CELIBACY OF THE CLERGY AND THE REGULATION OF clerical MARRIAGE The insistence upon clerical celibacy and even the mere regulation of the marriage of the ..."

3. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero, Ernest Alfred Benians (1904)
"The origin of the whole movement was a natural attempt on the part of man, with the progress of enlightenment, to emancipate himself from the clerical ..."

4. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"The lay president is appointed by the emperor, and the clerical president, who is at the wme time general superintendent, by the minister. ..."

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