What does CLERICAL mean?
Definitions for CLERICAL
ˈklɛr ɪ kəlcler·i·cal
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word CLERICAL.
Princeton's WordNet
clericaladjective
of or relating to clerks
"clerical work"
clericaladjective
of or relating to the clergy
"clerical collar"
clericaladjective
appropriate for or engaged in office work
"clerical skills"; "a clerical job"; "the clerical staff"
GCIDE
Clericaladjective
characteristic of the work performed by a clerk, secretary, or copyist, or suitable to be performed by a clerk.
Wiktionary
clericalnoun
A member of the clergy.
clericaladjective
of or relating to clerks or their work
clericaladjective
of or relating to the clergy
clericaladjective
a task which has to be completed on paper, form, or performed offline
Etymology: From clericalis, from clericus.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Clericaladjective
Relating to the clergy; as, a clerical man; a man in orders. Unless we may more properly read clarichords.
Etymology: clericus, Lat.
In clericals the keys are lined, and in colleges they use to line the table-men. Francis Bacon, Nat. History, №. 158.
ChatGPT
clerical
Clerical refers to tasks, skills or jobs related to or typically performed in an office environment, often involving administrative work such as managing correspondence, record-keeping, filing, and organizing. This term can also pertain to the duties of a clerk or roles related to a religious clergy.
Webster Dictionary
Clericaladjective
of or pertaining to the clergy; suitable for the clergy
Clericaladjective
of or relating to a clerk or copyist, or to writing
Etymology: [LL. clericalis. See Clerk.]
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of CLERICAL in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of CLERICAL in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
Examples of CLERICAL in a Sentence
Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown:
The penalties in the federal system need to be much more conveyed to people to discourage this idea that this is a harmless, mostly clerical administrative violation of the federal system, it is blood money. You are getting the guns... to someone that will harm someone.
Any interaction and cooperation with the clerical regime will be in service of the repression and slaughter of the Iranian people, and its nuclear weapons ambitions, and fueling wars in the region.
In the United States, the mechanical voting machine doesn't make any clerical errors unless someone makes an error in configuring the machine, and then they are huge.
The letter is helpful because the government needs to be held accountable for its conduct. Conduct we believe was driven to find a crime where one does not exist. As has been acknowledged repeatedly, these were clerical errors and omissions by former Congressman Schock for which he has taken full responsibility.
How could the clerical Church have kept silent, covering these atrocities ? The silence, the carrying of the secrets in the hearts of the perpetrators, the length of the abuses and the constant transfers of perpetrators are unimaginable.
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