ministerlike

comparative more ministerlike · superlative most ministerlike

1. Appropriate for or characteristic of a minister.

   If I were, ministerlike, to take a text, there are three I could propose

   1937, American Education Fellowship, Progressive Education Booklet - Issues 1-15, page 69

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   To let passe your seoffinge, and your Ministerlike interpretation, let vs comme to the mater & c.

   1566, John Iewel Bishoppe, A Replie unto M. Hardinges answeare to the Bishop's sermon on 1 Cor. xi. 23

   Instead, Bronson spoke calmly, asexually recalling quiet peace rather than ecstasy, and in a rhetorical tradition that was far more ministerlike than courtly.

   1970, The passion of Robert Bronson, page 168

   Was this deanlike? Was this preacherlike? Was this ministerlike? Nay truly it was minstrellike.

   1975, English Recusant Literature - Volume 234