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Of or pertaining to the clergy; suitable for the clergy. "A clerical education." Burke.

An excessive devotion to the interests of the sacerdotal order; undue influence of the clergy; sacerdotalism.

One who, after having received sacred orders, renounces his clerical profession.

A thick plain silk, generally black, and used for clerical. Simmonds.

Two strips of linen hanging from the neck in front as part of a clerical, legal, or academic dress.

or some purpose; a collective whole or totality; a corporation; as, a legislative body; a clerical body. A numerous body led unresistingly to the slaughter. Prescott.

en Anne's bounty (Eng. Hist.), a provision made in Queen Anne's reign for augmenting poor clerical livings.

One whose pursuits are those of civil life, not military or clerical.

Of or pertaining to the clergy; clerical; clerkily; learned. [Obs.] Milton.

Same as Clerical.

The distinctive dress of any profession, especially of the clergy; hence, the clerical profession. Appeals were made to the priesthood. Would they tamely permit so gross an insult to be offered to their cloth Macaulay. The cloth, the clergy, are constituted for administering and for giving the best possible effect to .…

A round spot shaved clean on the top of the head, as a mark of the clerical state; the tonsure.

s preached; also (esp. in the United States), a pulpit. Hence, used symbolically for "the clerical profession."

inaccuracy; something made wrong or left wrong; as, an error in writing or in printing; a clerical error.

Not clerical; laic; laical; hence, unlearned; simple. [Obs.] For if priest be foul, on whom we trust, No wonder is a lewed man to rust. Chaucer. So these great clerks their little wisdom show To mock the lewd, as learn'd in this as they. Sit. J. Davies.

A pendent part of the old clerical tippet; afterwards, a tippet; a scarf; -- worn also by doctors, learned men, etc. [Obs.]

Of or pertaining to a parson; clerical. Vainglory glowed in his parsonic heart. Colman. -- Par*son"ic*al*ly, adv.

One of the Greeks of Constantinople who after the Turkish conquest became powerful in clerical and other offices under Turkish patronage.

A member of a presbytery whether lay or clerical.

n a sweetish pulp. See Cassia. -- Pudding sleeve, a full sleeve like that of the English clerical gown. Swift. -- Pudding stone. (Min.) See Conglomerate, n., 2. -- Pudding time. (a) The time of dinner, pudding being formerly the dish first eaten. [Obs.] Johnson. (b) The nick of time; critical time. [Obs.] Mars, that…