Adjective : a clerical job. ,a clerical assistant; a clerical staff. ,clerical garb. ,a clerical party. From Dictionary.com.
This would not just be a clerically annoying task. From Wordnik.com. [Rob Kall: My Experiment With Rep. Robert Wexler on Fixing A Media Flaw That Angers Many Viewers/Listeners] Reference
Ireland is pre-eminently a clerically controlled country, the number of. From Wordnik.com. [Against Home Rule (1912) The Case for the Union] Reference
It was a gentle, clerically minded poet — himself the son of a peasant — Jörgen Moe. From Wordnik.com. [Henrik Ibsen] Reference
Sitting with the clerically-clothed Imam in a black SUV, I managed to get a few questions in. From Wordnik.com. [Parvez Sharma: The Basij Will Face Retribution: Exiled by the regime, Ayatollah Mohsen Kadivar Gives His Own Sermon] Reference
This excommunication order also attests to the fact that Bruskewitz is a unchecked despot, clerically speaking. From Wordnik.com. [Angela Bonavoglia: The New Inquisition - Season's Greetings from the Vatican] Reference
Of course, now I'm stuck to wonder what the clerically-accepted sequel to the SEARS AND ROEBUCKS catalog actually is. From Wordnik.com. [Klausner Backlash?] Reference
A nice, smooth-faced man, somewhat clerically dressed, straight and portly of person, and most unexceptionable in his morals, is Mr. Hadger. From Wordnik.com. [An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith] Reference
Among the black and breaking groups in that distance was one especially black which did not break — a group of two figures clerically clad. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Father Brown] Reference
I essentially used the criteria I still use for packing non-clerically -- clothes that hold a shape, widely interchangable, and of one or two color families. From Wordnik.com. [Does God Call Us To Comfort In Any Wise?] Reference
Following the HMRC incident last November, increased security measures have been put in place for dealing with data transfers both clerically and electronically. From Wordnik.com. [*** DWP staff breach data security rules ***] Reference
Charles Lamb, if he had been clerically disposed, would, I am sure, have written short sermons; and I think that his hearers would have carried away the gist of them clean and clear. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864] Reference
For progressives it really up'ed the voter participation, but there were identified voter suppression efforts especially by GOP Clerks who found ways to clerically make mistakes or not send out ballots. From Wordnik.com. [With Key Phase In Recount Now Over, Franken Looks On Track To Win] Reference
Again Mr. Pyecroft's eyes flashed shrewdly, and again were clerically rounded. From Wordnik.com. [No. 13 Washington Square] Reference
And then, at an instant's end, his face was once more grave and clerically benign. From Wordnik.com. [No. 13 Washington Square] Reference
But El Pais turned the ruling into the achievement of a community that "suffers flagrant discrimination" in a clerically dominated state. From Wordnik.com. [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference
Among the black and breaking groups in that distance was one especially black which did not break -- a group of two figures clerically clad. From Wordnik.com. [The Innocence of Father Brown] Reference
One of them, mistaking him for his senior officer, who was not over-clerically inclined, remarked, loud enough to be heard by most of the congregation. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections and reflections : an auto of half a century and more,] Reference
Mr. Sandys, a fine-looking robust man, clean-shaven, curly-haired, carefully and clerically dressed, was standing by Mr.. Graves; he came forward and shook hands. From Wordnik.com. [Watersprings] Reference
He said "inefficient and clerically intensive" reconciliations had been required every year to bring estimates of income into line with actual income for the year. From Wordnik.com. [The most recent articles from Computing] Reference
He also was found guilty of having jumped over the fence instead of decorously and clerically walking through the gate when going to call on one of his parishioners. From Wordnik.com. [Sabbath in Puritan New England] Reference
Workflow is typically implemented in clerically intensive business processes in order to streamline them and bring greater efficiencies, consistency and improvements to customer service. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
The door was open for the well-organized Iraqi Supreme Islamic Council (ISCI), the clerically dominated party that had controlled many important provincial governorships and councils in the south. From Wordnik.com. [THE AIR FORCE PUNDIT] Reference
When they came to the steps the Jaguar descended and held out his clerically befrocked arms so that the gurgler from Mark's shoulder and the giggler from Nell's arms both fell into his embrace at one time. From Wordnik.com. [The Heart's Kingdom] Reference
The figures also show that the maintenance collection system continues to be dogged by chronic computer problems that have forced 80,000 cases to be managed clerically at a cost three times that of computerised cases. From Wordnik.com. [Latest news from the public and voluntary sectors, including health, children, local government and social care, plus SocietyGuardian jobs | guardian.co.uk] Reference
The report says India, China and Russia alongwith Indonesia, Turkey and a post-clerically-run Iran, which are predominantly Islamic but which fall outside the Arab core, appear well-suited for growing international roles. From Wordnik.com. [Latest News Online - Express Indian] Reference
It was a gentle, clerically minded poet -- himself the son of a peasant -- Jörgen Moe (1813-82), long afterwards Bishop of Christianssand, who, as far back as 1834, began to collect from peasants the folk-tales of Norway. From Wordnik.com. [Henrik Ibsen] Reference
He supported Mr. Gladstone's view in favour of allowing affirmation, but he did so without heartiness, disliking 'the trade of living on blatant atheism,' and finding in himself tendencies which led him to fear that he was 'clerically minded.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 1] Reference
We have a system of clerically controlled education; and while I am not here to raise religious issues, let me tell you that, in that system of education. there is a propaganda of anti-British teaching in our elementary schools in Ireland that is practically responsible for all this ignorance and all this bitterness of feeling today. From Wordnik.com. [The Irish Problem] Reference
Is love more decent when it has been officially and clerically catalogued? ". From Wordnik.com. [The Common Law] Reference
Very neatly and clerically put. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-09-29] Reference
This reverend man, with countenance so demurely benign, with robes, so glossy and so clerically flowing, with wig so minutely powdered, so rigid and so vast — could this be he who of late, with sour visage, and in snuffy habiliments, administered, ferule in hand, the Draconian laws of the. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque. In Two Volumes. Vol. I] Reference
This reverend man, with countenance so demurely benign, with robes so glossy and so clerically flowing, with wig so minutely powdered, so rigid and so vast, -- could this be he who, of late, with sour visage, and in snuffy habiliments, administered, ferule in hand, the Draconian Laws of the academy?. From Wordnik.com. [Selections from Poe] Reference
This reverend man with countenance so demurely benign, with robes so glossy, and so clerically flowing, with wig so minutely powdered, so rigid and so vast, -- could this be he who, of late, with sour visage, and in snuffy habiliments, administered, ferule in hand, the Draconian Laws of the academy?. From Wordnik.com. [International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850] Reference
This reverend man, with countenance so demurely benign, with robes so glossy and so clerically flowing, with wig so minutely powdered, so rigid and so vast, --- could this be he who, of late, with sour visage, and in snuffy habiliments, administered, ferule in hand, the Draconian laws of the academy?. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2] Reference
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