episcopally
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
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
They practise episcopal ordination, but do not condemn all other ordinations as invalid; and a minister of another Protestant Church may be accepted as a Moravian minister without being episcopally ordained.
From A History of the Moravian Church by Joseph Edmund Hutton
But a man who took off his hat when he passed a church episcopally consecrated must be a good man, a pious man, a man of good principles.
From Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
But he and his colleagues "not episcopally ordained" were forbidden to preach to British soldiers and to the Armenians and Portuguese.
From Life of William Carey by George Smith
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
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
