Clerical

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Clerical \Cler"ic*al\, a. [LL. clericalis. See {Clerk}.]
     1. Of or pertaining to the clergy; suitable for the clergy.
        "A clerical education." --Burke.
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     2. Of or relating to a clerk or copyist, or to writing.


        "Clerical work." --E. Everett.
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     3. characteristic of the work performed by a clerk,
        secretary, or copyist, or suitable to be performed by a
        clerk. "Clerical staff."
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     {A clerical error}, an error made in copying or writing.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  clerical
       adj 1: of or relating to clerks; "clerical work"
       2: of or relating to the clergy; "clerical collar"
       3: appropriate for or engaged in office work; "clerical
          skills"; "a clerical job"; "the clerical staff"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  41 Moby Thesaurus words for "clerical":
     abbatial, abbatical, accounting, apostolic, archiepiscopal,
     bookkeeping, canonical, capitular, capitulary, churchly, churchman,
     cleric, clerk, divine, ecclesiastic, ecclesiastical, episcopal,
     episcopalian, evangelistic, hieratic, minister, ministerial,
     monastic, office, papal, parson, pastoral, pontifical, preacher,
     prelatial, prelatic, priest-ridden, priestish, priestly,
     professional, rabbinic, reverend, sacerdotal, secretarial,
     stenographic, ultramontane