clerical
adjective
clerically
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a word derived from
clerical.
Example Sentences
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Under Iran’s clerically overseen system, the president is subordinate to Khamenei, who is Iran’s top decision-maker and has the final say on all matters of state.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 20, 2017
It is the wandering Madwoman, Mr. Bostridge, singing distracted, anguished phrases, dressed almost clerically, like a church deacon.
From New York Times ● Oct. 31, 2014
Well does Counsel Seabury, who dresses sombrely, almost clerically, know this.
From Time Magazine Archive
The former is a transcript of the Persian Tarkash; the latter appears to be merely a corruption of it, arising perhaps clerically from the constant confusion of c and t in MSS.
From The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Henry Yule
Among the black and breaking groups in that distance was one especially black which did not break—a group of two figures clerically clad.
From The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
