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Definition of clerical in English: clericaladjective ˈklɛrɪk(ə)lˈklɛrək(ə)l 1Concerned with or relating to work in an office, especially routine documentation and administrative tasks. Example sentencesExamples - Under the reforms, support assistants took over 24 clerical and routine tasks from teachers when the new term began last week.
- In six units midwives spent time away from clinical areas performing clerical duties.
- His wife Caroline has worked as a clerical assistant just across the road at the town hall for the same time.
- Another is much younger and prefers to spend his staff budget on his press secretary and clerical help to answer the mail.
- Office ladies are women hired to perform relatively simple clerical and office work.
- Caymanians hold the majority of the clerical, secretarial, and lower management jobs.
- They also refuse to carry out clerical, administrative and porter duties.
- One result was to grade hospital information technology staff on administration and clerical scales.
- In Wales, administrative and clerical support is provided by the National Assembly.
- The work tasks varied from foundry work and heavy engineering to precision engineering and clerical and administrative work.
- The clerical and administration workers, mostly women, are fighting to win a higher grade and improve their poverty pay.
- Those fortunate enough to have the necessary education have gone on to clerical and other white collar jobs.
- But when her health deteriorated, the clerical duties fell on him and he found himself struggling to cope.
- So last October she stripped her sales force of all its clerical duties.
- Given the essentially clerical nature of this task, this ought to have provided a relatively speedy system.
- However they represent more than two-thirds of clerical and staff officers.
- On top, human resource and clerical duties are, more and more, being shifted onto registered nurses.
- The seemingly obvious answer is for IT to take its own medicine and automate these manual, largely clerical, tasks.
- The State Department says clerical and administrative errors led to the mistake.
- Massively behind in her clerical work, Jordan needed help but had no time to interview a slew of applicants.
Synonyms office, desk, back-room administrative, secretarial, writing, typing, keyboarding, filing, bookkeeping white-collar informal pen-pushing 2Relating to the clergy. he was still attired in his clerical outfit Example sentencesExamples - In all of this scandal, a great deal has been made of clerical culture.
- The only thing that has changed is the capacity of the clerical culture to sustain the duplicity.
- The clerical monopoly was broken; from now on every man and woman could be their own interpreter.
- This shift is most striking in the more clerical churches, the Anglican and Roman Catholic.
- He wore the clerical robes of a priest, but there was something not quite right about his getup.
- The women are taking over priestly and clerical duties, such as chaplaincies.
- There is a huge difference between clerical reform of the church and lay renewal of the church.
- Society is too different, the needs of the church have changed, and the regime of clerical prestige is gone.
- Similar developments were evident in the incomes of the lesser princes and lords, both lay and clerical.
- The question that must be asked is what in the clerical culture itself leads to this kind of debacle in the first place.
- She does not make a point of calling attention to her status by the use of either titles or clerical garb.
- As many have observed, clerical and especially episcopal accountability is a complex matter.
- Still, such men could use their gifts in carrying on authentic and fruitful clerical ministries.
- It is not difficult to see why Gregory and his supporters denounced both lay proprietorship and clerical marriage.
- It is in this chapel that the first conversation about clerical office begins.
- The reformers reacted against the clerical abuse of power, and rightly so.
- It seems to me, if clerical culture needs to be broken up and exposed to the light, that would just about do it.
- Evangelism, instruction, leadership and even prayer, are thought of as clerical functions.
- Again, a culture of secrecy develops, one that is carried over into the larger clerical culture.
- They required that relatives and friends, both lay and clerical, obtain written permission to visit.
Synonyms ecclesiastical, church, priestly, pastoral, religious, spiritual, prelatic, apostolic, canonical, parsonical holy, divine archaic vicarial rare sacerdotal, hieratic, rectorial, presbyteral
Derivatives noun ˈklɛrɪk(ə)ˌlɪz(ə)mˈklɛrəkəlˌɪzəm mass noun(especially in Roman Catholic contexts) the misuse or overextension of the clergy's authority. when we attack and condemn clericalism, we must take care not to attack and condemn priests as such Example sentencesExamples - In the past, as a reaction to clericalism, we have sometimes expected our priests to be ‘one of the guys,’ and perhaps this is where we have erred.
- It is simply clericalism to suggest that religious leaders and public intellectuals ‘own’ the just war tradition in a singular way.
- The revolutionaries of 1789 fought in the name of secularism against the clericalism of feudal society, and enacted a firm separation of church and state.
noun ˈklɛrɪk(ə)lɪstˈklɛrəkələst (especially in Roman Catholic contexts) a person regarded as supporting or engaging in the misuse or overextension of the clergy's authority. clericalists accepted the Church's hierarchy because they emphasized their faith over nationality
adverb I can't do labouring, I'm not clerically minded - so what sort of work can I do? Example sentencesExamples - They doggedly believe that EC should just clerically run the elections which must be ordered by them, for their benefit, at their convenience.
- The turn from a clerically centred history of Catholicism to a broader cultural history of the Irish signalled a shift that other Catholic historians have followed.
- This new government, however, managed to alienate the native population by seizing clerically held lands, closing religious schools, and abolishing shariat courts.
- They are laying the pillars of a new, clerically protected democratic order.
Origin Late 15th century (in sense 2): from ecclesiastical Latin clericalis, from clericus 'clergyman' (see cleric). Rhymes chimerical, hemispherical, hysterical, numerical, spherical Definition of clerical in US English: clericaladjectiveˈklɛrək(ə)lˈklerək(ə)l 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 Example sentencesExamples - One result was to grade hospital information technology staff on administration and clerical scales.
- Office ladies are women hired to perform relatively simple clerical and office work.
- In six units midwives spent time away from clinical areas performing clerical duties.
- The seemingly obvious answer is for IT to take its own medicine and automate these manual, largely clerical, tasks.
- His wife Caroline has worked as a clerical assistant just across the road at the town hall for the same time.
- Given the essentially clerical nature of this task, this ought to have provided a relatively speedy system.
- The clerical and administration workers, mostly women, are fighting to win a higher grade and improve their poverty pay.
- They also refuse to carry out clerical, administrative and porter duties.
- So last October she stripped her sales force of all its clerical duties.
- Under the reforms, support assistants took over 24 clerical and routine tasks from teachers when the new term began last week.
- The work tasks varied from foundry work and heavy engineering to precision engineering and clerical and administrative work.
- Another is much younger and prefers to spend his staff budget on his press secretary and clerical help to answer the mail.
- Those fortunate enough to have the necessary education have gone on to clerical and other white collar jobs.
- In Wales, administrative and clerical support is provided by the National Assembly.
- On top, human resource and clerical duties are, more and more, being shifted onto registered nurses.
- Caymanians hold the majority of the clerical, secretarial, and lower management jobs.
- The State Department says clerical and administrative errors led to the mistake.
- Massively behind in her clerical work, Jordan needed help but had no time to interview a slew of applicants.
- However they represent more than two-thirds of clerical and staff officers.
- But when her health deteriorated, the clerical duties fell on him and he found himself struggling to cope.
2Relating to the clergy. he was still attired in his clerical outfit Example sentencesExamples - Again, a culture of secrecy develops, one that is carried over into the larger clerical culture.
- In all of this scandal, a great deal has been made of clerical culture.
- The clerical monopoly was broken; from now on every man and woman could be their own interpreter.
- This shift is most striking in the more clerical churches, the Anglican and Roman Catholic.
- As many have observed, clerical and especially episcopal accountability is a complex matter.
- He wore the clerical robes of a priest, but there was something not quite right about his getup.
- Similar developments were evident in the incomes of the lesser princes and lords, both lay and clerical.
- It is not difficult to see why Gregory and his supporters denounced both lay proprietorship and clerical marriage.
- It seems to me, if clerical culture needs to be broken up and exposed to the light, that would just about do it.
- She does not make a point of calling attention to her status by the use of either titles or clerical garb.
- There is a huge difference between clerical reform of the church and lay renewal of the church.
- The reformers reacted against the clerical abuse of power, and rightly so.
- It is in this chapel that the first conversation about clerical office begins.
- The women are taking over priestly and clerical duties, such as chaplaincies.
- Evangelism, instruction, leadership and even prayer, are thought of as clerical functions.
- The question that must be asked is what in the clerical culture itself leads to this kind of debacle in the first place.
- The only thing that has changed is the capacity of the clerical culture to sustain the duplicity.
- They required that relatives and friends, both lay and clerical, obtain written permission to visit.
- Society is too different, the needs of the church have changed, and the regime of clerical prestige is gone.
- Still, such men could use their gifts in carrying on authentic and fruitful clerical ministries.
Synonyms ecclesiastical, church, priestly, pastoral, religious, spiritual, prelatic, apostolic, canonical, parsonical
Origin Late 15th century (in clerical (sense 2)): from ecclesiastical Latin clericalis, from clericus ‘clergyman’ (see cleric). |