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sacerdotally en · ADV

Etymology

From sacerdotal + -ly.

Meanings

1. In a sacerdotal manner, in the manner of a priest.
   • 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 […] 1937, Karen Blixen, Out of Africa, London: Putnam, published 1948, Part 5, Chapter 2:
   • 1720, Samuel Parker, Biblioteca Biblica, Oxford: William and John Innys, Volume I, Part 2, Occasional Annotation 30, “The Pillar of Jacob,” p. 608, […] first he Blessed the Place Sacerdotally, setting it apart by Solemn Rites for a Place of Divine Worship […]
   • Some ladies went a dozen times in the day to hear mass, but paid little attention to what was going on sacerdotally. 1883 September 29, “Some Things of Old Spain”, in All the Year Round, volume 32, number 774, page 369:
   • Pickerbaugh assigned to them the chief booth, on the platform once sacerdotally occupied by the Reverend Mr. Sunday. 1925, Sinclair Lewis, chapter 23, in Arrowsmith, New York: Harcourt, Brace, published 1945, page 259:

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Synonyms

priestly