Dictionary 1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the clergy; suitable for the clergy.2. (a.) of or relating to a clerk or copyist, or to writing. Thesaurus abbatial abbatical accounting apostolic archiepiscopal bookkeeping canonical capitular capitulary churchly churchman cleric clerk divine ecclesiastic ecclesiastical episcopal episcopalian evangelistic hieratic minister ministerial monastic office papal parson pastoral pontifical preacher prelatial prelatic priest-ridden priestish priestly professional rabbinic reverend sacerdotal secretarial stenographic ultramontane |