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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

But for the most part people left the movement alone, unless they happened to be Bishops or very clerically connected.

From Res Judicat? Papers and Essays by Birrell, Augustine

Sybil nodded, but the furtive glances of the clerically dressed visitor caused her to call Prince back as he was retiring.

From The Duke Decides by Hill, Headon