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/klˈɛrəkəl/ /klˈɛrɪkəl/ Listen

adjective

Clerical adj.

Of or pertaining to the clergy; suitable for the clergy. "A clerical education."

Of or relating to a clerk or copyist, or to writing. "Clerical work."

Characteristic of the work performed by a clerk, secretary, or copyist, or suitable to be performed by a clerk. "Clerical staff."

A clerical error, an error made in copying or writing.

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Etymology of 'Clerical'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Clerical" Quotes from Famous Books

... of the world all had their charters from the Popes at this time, and were all ruled by ecclesiastics, and most of the students and practically all of the professors down to the end of the sixteenth century belonged to the clerical order. The universities of Italy were all more directly under the control of ecclesiastical authority than anywhere else, and nearly all of them were dominated by papal influence. Bologna, while doing much of the best graduate work in science, especially in medicine, was, ...

— Old-Time Makers of Medicine • James J. Walsh

... public as the Corporation, and is liable to all the demands of public convenience. But it is added that the property of Trinity College is not more than L30,000 or L40,000 a year, and that the grant for Catholic Clerical Education alone is L26,000 a year; and certainly till the Protestant Church be equalised to the wants of the Protestant population there will be something in the argument. When that Reformation comes, a third of the funds should be given for Protestant Clerical Education, ...

— Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry • Thomas Davis

... said Mark. 'She has been acting as a daily governess. She seemed to be on friendly terms with the clerical folk. I came across the name at a school feast, or something of the kind, which came off in ...

— Nuttie's Father • Charlotte M. Yonge

... was regarding her with keen but friendly eyes. "You are not of the clerical force at Hamilton Hall. Let me think. You are a sophomore, are you not?" He asked the question triumphantly, smiling as ...

— Marjorie Dean, College Sophomore • Pauline Lester

... anabaptist, is drowned at Zurich Few, even prelates were very dutiful to the pope Fiction of apostolic authority to bind and loose Fishermen and river raftsmen become ocean adventurers For myself I am unworthy of the honor (of martyrdom) Forbids all private assemblies for devotion Force clerical—the power of clerks Great Privilege, the Magna Charta of Holland Guarantees of forgiveness for every imaginable sin Halcyon days of ban, book and candle Heresy was a plant of early growth in the Netherlands In Holland, the clergy had neither influence nor seats Invented ...

— Quotations From John Lothrop Motley • David Widger

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