clerical

• It said: Wanted -- clerical assistant devoid of interest in literature or ideas. —  F ;SF; - vol 098 issue 02 - February 2000
• His voice became more markedly clerical, and in the movement of his head Alleyn recognised one of his pulpit mannerisms. —  Overture to Death - Ngaio Marsh - Alleyn 08: 1939
• The then very general, though even then not universal, necessity of taking orders before very long would probably in any case have sent him wandering; for it is clear from the first that his bent was hopelessly anti-clerical, and he was not merely too honest, but much too proud a man, to consent to be put in one of the priests' offices for a morsel of bread. —  Matthew Arnold
• His abundant hair, steel-grey, slightly crisped under his hat, not curling exactly, but with a becoming twist in it--clerical, yet not too clerical, a man given to no extremes, decorously churchmanlike, yet liberal and tolerant of the world. —  Phoebe, Junior
• The less usual word mistaken for the word of more frequent occurrence;--clerical carelessness;--a gloss finding its way from the margin into the text;--- such explanations as these would probably in other cases suffice to account for every ascertained corruption of the text. —  The Causes of the Corruption of the Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels Being the Sequel to The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels

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