1 relating to a priest or priests: --
clerical ministry
2 relating to the type of work usually done in an office, or to the work of a clerk --
3 relating to work done in an office, dealing with files, records, etc.: --
Perhaps in the 1620s the objection really was about distraction from pastoral tasks ; in the 1630s, though, the objection was certainly political - to clerical authority.
Largely owing to this deft intertwining of popular and clerical elements, the collection, one of many such lives of saints, gained immediate and enduring popularity.
One of the chief components of a clerical education was just this kind of mastery, since it constituted a primary goal of the student's 'apprenticeship'.
He was called an anticlerical and obscene novelist by a conservative critic.
Medieval universities formed part of the clerical estate, more or less.
There are also chapters on moving within and without the capital, utilities, manufacturing, clerical services, financial services, welfare and government.
Once clerical and routine in its work, the federal public service saw increasing demand for specialists.
Such a distinction served in turn to demarcate more specifically the limits between the clerical and medical professions.
