Meaning

In a presbyterian manner..

Example Sentences

Every one knows that there was scarcely an individual among them who was not in familiar and affectionate correspondence with the Reformed churches on the continent; […] that native clergymen, presbyterianly ordained on the continent, were admitted without objection to hold preferment in England, without re-ordination; […]

And what the form of church government agreed to by the king and the General Assembly was in 1604, we have already seen; and therefore, where the supposed Church is to be found, distinct from the Church of which we have been speaking, I am unable to conjecture; and wherever it was, it had no bishops, for none existed; and only presbyterianly ordained pastors, for none others were to be found; and consequently, however well the words sound, I do not see how they advance the cause they are intended to promote.

The House of Shaws was a long, white granite two-storey manse with a heart-stopping view, but presbyterianly small windows.

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• more presbyterianly
• most presbyterianly

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