Definition of "ministerially" []

• In the character or capacity of a minister. (adverb)

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• "Jerry Falwell uses the phrase ministerially speaking to joke about his exaggerations of audience size and other numbers."
• "And this ruler is distinguished from him that exhorteth, and him that teacheth, with whose special work, as such, he hath nothing to do; even as they are distinguished from those who give and show mercy; that is, there is an elder by office in the Church, whose work and duty it is to _rule_, not to exhort or teach ministerially, which is our ruling elder."
• "Whitehall officials have repeatedly defended MI6's actions, saying the agency was following "ministerially authorised government policy.""