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
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
Add to this that he was middle-sized, clerically spare in form, reserved and quiet in demeanor, and one can see how he might very readily give the impression of being a minister.
From Twelve Men by Dreiser, Theodore
