parsonicallyadv.
/pɑːˈsɒnᵻkli/, U.S. /pɑrˈsɑnək(ə)li/ rare.
In the manner of a parson.
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parsonically1750
1750 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 8 May (1932) (modernized text) IV. 1536 I am not stoically advising, nor parsonically preaching to you.
1844 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. May 557/2 Messrs Folio and Duodecimo cannot, of course, afford to regard..a few county bookclubs, parsonically presided, as representatives of the public!
1907 Daily Chron. 20 June 3/2 These novels show us a woman and then a man undergoing this kind of discipline: Mr Peter Rosegger parsonically points the moral.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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