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clerical (adj.)
1590s, "pertaining to the clergy," from
cleric
+
-al
(1), or from French
clérical
, from Old French
clerigal
"learned," from Latin
clericalis
, from
clericus
(see
cleric
). Meaning "pertaining to clerks" is from 1798.
