He never derived from his clerical profession more than £100 a year and as a schoolmaster he was eminently successful.

As a result, his fitness to be a minister was questioned and presumably this controversy influenced his decision to leave the clerical profession.

He adopted the clerical profession, in which he rose to high honours.

It was seen at that stage as more of a clerical profession, of course.

Many of his siblings were educated or married into medical, clerical, legal and military professions.

Students are to be warned to spend their vacations in a manner becoming the clerical profession.

The clerical profession, if so it can be called, had expanded enormously in the previous century.

But the clerical profession in Iran is also surprisingly informal and democratic.

In October 1862, now looking forward to the clerical profession, he continued his college course.

The work was evidently intended as a manual for preachers, and was probably written by one of the clerical profession.