Clerically
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adverb
Quick meaning: Clerically is an adverb meaning In a clerical manner; as a cleric.
Meaning
In a clerical manner; as a cleric.
Example Sentences
His plump hands were transparent against the clerically black vest.
Among the black and breaking groups in that distance was one especially black which did not break—a group of two figures clerically clad.
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?
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include unclerically, sacerdotally, churchily, clerkishly, magistratically, ecclesiastically.
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