episcopally
Americanadverb
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One plan would join all churches that function "episcopally, congregationally and presbyterially," leaving local congregations free to administer the sacraments of Baptism and Communion in their own manner.
From Time Magazine Archive
What were the opinions of that great and good man, their founder, on the question whether men not episcopally ordained could lawfully administer the Eucharist?
From Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 4 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
The clergy refuse to be episcopally ordained, and they will continue to preach, and hence the trouble.
From The Coming of the King by James Hocking
Nancy!" says Bobby, abandoning, at length, his persecution of Tou Tou, and pretending not to hear her last persevering assertion of her determination not to be episcopally wed—"tell the truth, and shame the devil.
From Nancy by Rhoda Broughton
The twenty-four were all thus episcopally minded: they drew up the bills, and the bills were voted on without debate.
From A Short History of Scotland by Andrew Lang
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