clerically

clerically

English

Etymology

clerical +‎ -ly

Adverb

clerically (comparative more clerically, superlative most clerically)

1. In a clerical manner; as a cleric.
   • 1839, Edgar Allan Poe, "William Wilson"

     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?

   • 1911, G. K. Chesterton, "The Blue Cross" in The Innocence of Father Brown

     Among the black and breaking groups in that distance was one especially black which did not break—a group of two figures clerically clad.

   • 1942, Emily Carr, “The Bishop and the Canary”, in The Book of Small:

     His plump hands were transparent against the clerically black vest.

Translations

in a clerical manner

Finnish: papillisesti