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ministerlike en · ADJ

Etymology

From minister + -like.

Meanings

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

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