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1601 J. Deacon & J. Walker Dialogicall Disc. Spirits & Diuels 145 The husbandman (by applying and mixing wheat with earth,) may ministerially be saide to bring foorth the said wheat.

1652 J. Gaule Πυς-μαντια 207 Whether the good Angels can do Miracles? Ministerially, and instrumentally they may: but not principally and authoritatively.

1683 T. Tenison Disc. Guide Faith 12 The Governours of the Church do ministerially exhibit Christian Truth; they do not by mere Authority impose it.

1701 R. Cocks Diary 29 Mar. in D. W. Hayton Parl. Diary (1996) 78 Mr Finch said he was not obliged ministerially to affix the seales.

1752 J. Gill Doctr. Trinity (ed. 2) ii. 38 The angel of the Lord..spoke in his own name, and not ministerially in his who sent him.

1848 C. A. Johns Week at Lizard 201 My informant was called on to visit ministerially one of the..persons.., then..lying on his death-bed.

1885 Law Times 11 Apr. 421/1 [He] must have been acting judicially and ministerially.

1913 Amer. Econ. Rev. 3 32 His assumption that the amount of change of seigniorage required to correct a given change in the price level can be clerically or ministerially determined.

1987 Church Times 24 July 6/2 Aston seeks to use the raw material of people given to it, so as to enable those people to achieve lift-off academically, spiritually, personally and ministerially.