ministerially
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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Old Nick, in his ministerially commissioned report last week, thinks only 10 or 12, at most, can make a go of two hours a day of – memorable phrase – "reasonably low-cost but high-quality broadcasting".
From The Guardian ● Dec. 19, 2010
Replied, licence for my exorcism, that so I might, ministerially, allay this spiritual visitant, and thus render to the living and the dead release from this surprise.
From The Haunters & The Haunted Ghost Stories And Tales Of The Supernatural by Ernest Rhys
It is for you to decide, if you will confer ministerially with M. Brantzen on this matter.
From The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. IX by Jared Sparks
"With us the bishops act only ministerially and by virtue of the regal commission, by which the prince firmly enjoins and commands them to proceed in choosing, confirming, and consecrating, &c."
From The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 03 Swift's Writings on Religion and the Church — Volume 1 by Jonathan Swift
Whether Fielding's admiration for the "glorious Woman" in whose cause he had drawn his pen was genuine, or whether—to use Johnson's convenient euphemism concerning Hooke—"he was acting only ministerially," are matters for speculation.
From Fielding by Austin Dobson
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