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   cler·i·cal

   /ˈklerək(ə)l/

   adjective

   • 1. (of a job or person) concerned with or relating to work in an office, especially routine documentation and administrative tasks: "temps are always needed for clerical work" Similar officedeskback-roomadministrativesecretarialwritingtypingkeyboardingfilingbookkeepingwhite-collarinformal:pen-pushing
   • 2. relating to the clergy: "he was still attired in his clerical outfit" Similar ecclesiasticalchurchpriestlypastoralreligiousspiritualprelaticapostoliccanonicalparsonicalholydivinearchaic:vicarialrare:sacerdotalhieraticrectorialpresbyteralOpposite secular

   Word Origin late 15th century (in clerical (sense 2)): from ecclesiastical Latin clericalis, from clericus ‘clergyman’ (see cleric).

   Derivatives

   • 1. clerically adverb

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