Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a ministerial manner, character, or capacity.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In a ministerial manner; in the character or capacity of a minister.

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  • adverb In the character or capacity of a minister.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb in the manner of a minister or clergyman

Etymologies

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ministerial +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • Jerry Falwell uses the phrase ministerially speaking to joke about his exaggerations of audience size and other numbers.

    Prime Time Preachers: The Rising Power of Televangelism; with an Introduction by T George Harris 1981

  • And this ruler is distinguished from him that exhorteth, and him that teacheth, with whose special work, as such, he hath nothing to do; even as they are distinguished from those who give and show mercy; that is, there is an elder by office in the Church, whose work and duty it is to _rule_, not to exhort or teach ministerially, which is our ruling elder.

    The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London

  • Whitehall officials have repeatedly defended MI6's actions, saying the agency was following "ministerially authorised government policy."

    Libyan dissidents sue MI6 officer over abduction and torture claims 2012

  • Huw Irranca-Davies, shadow minister for the marine and natural environment, asked the Speaker even more unimaginatively whether ministers meant what they ministerially said, and was assured by John Bercow: "Ministers are responsible for what they say and I must assume that they speak on behalf of the government."

    What was Nick Clegg really thinking? Only God knows 2010

  • It said the draft bill sought to create a ministerially-appointed facilitator and tribunal with responsibility for resolving pricing disputes and facilitating negotiations on pricing.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2008

  • My father, ministerially busy with broccoli that he didn't actually like, nodded, but Polly said she hadn't seen it.

    Penalty Francis, Dick 1997

  • This will entail government acting inter-ministerially - creating a conducive environment for the private sector investment in the provision of accommodation, hospitality and leisure.

    Discussion Documents for Commissions 1997

  • The introduction of a new child support benefit follows the ministerially appointed Lund Committee investi - gation last year which found serious shortcomings in the present system.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • Of these, 1293 had been lost to recruitment by the police, resignations, arrests for serious crimes, ministerially approved discharges and desertion.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • Management and union members had committed themselves to industrial peace, pending long-term recommendations by a ministerially appointed task force, she said in a statement.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1995

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