ministerlike

English

Etymology

minister +‎ -like

Adjective

ministerlike (comparative more ministerlike, superlative most ministerlike)

1. Appropriate for or characteristic of a minister.
   • 1566, John Iewel Bishoppe, A Replie unto M. Hardinges answeare to the Bishop's sermon on 1 Cor. xi. 23:

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

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

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

   • 1970, The passion of Robert Bronson, page 168:

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

   • 1975, English Recusant Literature - Volume 234:

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