释义 |
ministerially, adv.|ˌmɪnɪˈstɪərɪəlɪ| [f. ministerial a. + -ly2.] In a ministerial manner or capacity; as a minister (in any sense of the word).
1601Deacon & Walker Spirits & Divels 145 The husbandman (by applying and mixing wheat with earth,) may ministerially be saide to bring foorth the said wheat. 1652Gaule Magastrom. 207 Whether the good angels can do miracles? Ministerially and instrumentally they may, but not principally and authoritatively. 1752J. Gill Trinity ii. 38 The angel of the Lord..spoke in his own name, and not ministerially in his who sent him. 1848C. A. Johns Week at Lizard 201 My informant was called on to visit ministerially one of the..persons.., then..lying on his death⁓bed. 1885Law Times 11 Apr. 421/1 [He] must have been acting judicially and ministerially. |