Synonyms for clerical
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Concerning clerks
secretarial, office, filing, typing, stenographic, accounting, bookkeeping, written, scribal, administrative, assistant, on the support staff, white-collar.
Concerning the clergy
ministerial, sacerdotal, priestly, pastoral, apostolic, monastic, theocratic, monkish, hierarchic, rabbinical, churchly, cleric, prelatic, papal, episcopal, canonical, pontifical, ecclesiastic, ordained, of the cloth, sacred, holy, ecclesiastical, parsonic, parsonish, in God's service, doing the Lord's work; see also divine 2.
Antonyms lay, worldly*, civilian.
See clerical in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II
noun
A person ordained for service in a Christian church:
churchman, churchwoman, clergyman, clergywoman, cleric, clerk, divine, ecclesiastic, minister, parson, preacher. (Informal) reverend. See religion
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