clerically

English

Etymology

clerical +‎ -ly

Adverb

clerically (comparative more clerically, superlative most clerically)

1. In a clerical manner; as a cleric.
   • 1839, Edgar Allan Poe, "William Wilson" [1]

     This reverend man, with countenance so demurely benign, with robes so glossy and so clerically flowing, with wig so minutely powdered, so rigid and so vast,—-could this be he who, of late, with sour visage, and in snuffy habiliments, administered, ferule in hand, the Draconian laws of the academy?

   • 1911, G. K. Chesterton, "The Blue Cross" in The Innocence of Father Brown [2]

     Among the black and breaking groups in that distance was one especially black which did not break—a group of two figures clerically clad.

   • 1942, Emily Carr, The Book of Small, "The Bishop and the Canary," [3]

     His plump hands were transparent against the clerically black vest.

Translations

in a clerical manner

• Finnish: papillisesti
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