Meanings of clerical habit in English

His brown, heavy face did not accord with the clerical habit or with the thin clerical voice.

One of them wore a clerical habit, and the other, from his dress, seemed to attend in the capacity of a menial.

He is described, when in London, as a man of quiet, clerical habit, not averse to tea and coffee, and kind to children.

2: The habit of holiness, for instance the religious or the clerical habit, signifies a state whereby one is bound to perform works of perfection.