sacerdotally

English

Etymology

From sacerdotal +‎ -ly.

Adverb

sacerdotally (comparative more sacerdotally, superlative most sacerdotally)

1. In a sacerdotal manner, in the manner of a priest.

   Synonym: priestly

   • 1720, Samuel Parker, Biblioteca Biblica, Oxford: William and John Innys, Volume I, Part 2, Occasional Annotation 30, “The Pillar of Jacob,” p. 608,^[1]

     […] first he Blessed the Place Sacerdotally, setting it apart by Solemn Rites for a Place of Divine Worship […]

   • 1883 September 29, “Some Things of Old Spain”, in All the Year Round, volume 32, number 774, page 369:

     Some ladies went a dozen times in the day to hear mass, but paid little attention to what was going on sacerdotally.

   • 1925, Sinclair Lewis, chapter 23, in Arrowsmith‎^[2], New York: Harcourt, Brace, published 1945, page 259:

     Pickerbaugh assigned to them the chief booth, on the platform once sacerdotally occupied by the Reverend Mr. Sunday.

   • 1937, Karen Blixen, Out of Africa‎^[3], London: Putnam, published 1948, Part 5, Chapter 2:

     Here I saw for the first time, in any number to speak of, the Mission-boys, the converted Natives, half sacerdotally attired, whatever office they might be filling […]

References

• “sacerdotally”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.