clerically

Adverb

1. In a clerical manner; as a cleric.
   • This reverend man, with countenance so demurely benign, with robes so glossy and so clerically flowing, with wig so minutely powdered, so rigid and so vast,—-could this be he who, of late, with sour visage, and in...
   • Among the black and breaking groups in that distance was one especially black which did not break—a group of two figures clerically clad. - 1911, G. K. Chesterton, “The Blue Cross”, in The Innocence of Father Brown:
   • His plump hands were transparent against the clerically black vest. - 1942, Emily Carr, “The Bishop and the Canary”, in The Book of Small, Toronto, Ont.: Oxford University Press, →OCLC: