presbyterianly

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1. In a presbyterian manner.

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

   1996, A[drian] A[nthony] Gill, Sap Rising, London: Doubleday, →ISBN, page 234

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   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; […]

   1838 January, “Art[icle] V.—Tracts for the Times. By members of the University of Oxford. Second Edition. London. J. G. & F. Rivington. 1837. Three volumes.”, in The Biblical Repertory and Princeton Review for the Year 1838, volume X, number I, Philadelphia, Pa.: James A. Peabody, […] J. Bogart, […], page 93

   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.

   1853, W[illiam] Goode, “On the Term ‘Church of Scotland’ in the Fifty-Fifth Canon”, in A Reply to Archdeacon Churton and Chancellor Harington, on the Term “Church of Scotland” in the Fifty-Fifth Canon, and on Non-Episcopal Ordinations, 2nd edition, New York, N.Y.: A[nson] D[avies] F[itz] Randolph, […], page 10

   Synonyms: presbyterially

comparative more Presbyterianly · superlative most Presbyterianly

1. In a Presbyterian manner.

   One is, from that part of the people in any parish who are Presbyterianly inclined.

   1894, John Franklin Rowe, A History of Reformatory Movements, page 459

   Synonyms: Presbyterially