ministerlike

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English

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Etymology

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From minister +‎ -like.

Adjective

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ministerlike (comparative more ministerlike, superlative most ministerlike)

  1. Appropriate for or characteristic of a minister.
    • 1566, John Iewel Bishoppe, A Replie unto M. Hardinges answeare to the Bishop's sermon on 1 Cor. xi. 23:
      To let passe your seoffinge, and your Ministerlike interpretation, let vs comme to the mater & c.
    • 1937, American Education Fellowship, Progressive Education Booklet - Issues 1-15, page 69:
      If I were, ministerlike, to take a text, there are three I could propose
    • 1970, The passion of Robert Bronson, page 168:
      Instead, Bronson spoke calmly, asexually recalling quiet peace rather than ecstasy, and in a rhetorical tradition that was far more ministerlike than courtly.
    • 1975, English Recusant Literature - Volume 234:
      Was this deanlike? Was this preacherlike? Was this ministerlike? Nay truly it was minstrellike.