As postmodifier: = regular, adj. 1a.

= reverend, adj. 1. Now rare.

Christian Church. = regular, adj. 1a. Obsolete. rare.

Of or pertaining to the church viewed as consisting of the clergy; pertaining to or characteristic of an ecclesiastic or ecclesiastics.

Of or relating to the office or duties of minister of religion; characteristic of such a minister.

Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of, the clergy or a clergyman (esp. in their professional capacity).

Of persons: Belonging to the church viewed as consisting of the clergy; clerical (= older sense of spiritual) as opposed to lay. Also of attire…

Of or pertaining to the clergy, clerical, adj. n.

Of, relating to, or characteristic of the clergy. Now rare.

Pertaining to the clergy.

attributive or as adj. Belonging to the clergy, clerical.

= hieratic, adj.

wearing a shovel hat; transferred of or pertaining to the ideas or opinions of a wearer of a shovel hat.

Of, befitting, or characteristic of a churchman (churchman, n. 2a).

Pertaining to or used by the priestly class; used in connection with sacred subjects. spec. Appropriate to sacred persons or duties.