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Synonyms for clerical

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  1. Concerning clerks

    secretarial, office, filing, typing, stenographic, accounting, bookkeeping, written, scribal, administrative, assistant, on the support staff, white-collar.

  2. 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

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