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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Clerical \Cler"ic*al\, adjective [LL. clericalis. See {Clerk}.]
1. Of or pertaining to the clergy; suitable for the clergy. ''A clerical education.'' --Burke.
2. Of or relating to a clerk or copyist, or to writing. ''Clerical work.'' --E. Everett.
3. characteristic of the work performed by a clerk, secretary, or copyist, or suitable to be performed by a clerk. ''Clerical staff.'' [PJC]
{A clerical error}, an error made in copying or writing.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
clerical
adjective
1: of or relating to clerks; "clerical work"
2: of or relating to the clergy; "clerical collar"
3: appropriate for or engaged in office work; "clerical skills"; "a clerical job"; "the clerical staff"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
41 Moby Thesaurus words for "clerical": 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
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