Presbyterially

From Presbyterial +‎ -ly.

Presbyterially (comparative more Presbyterially, superlative most Presbyterially)

1. In a Presbyterial manner.

   Synonym: Presbyterianly

   • 1916, Edward McCrady, Where the Protestant Episcopal Church Stands: A Review of Official Definitions Versus Non-Official Theories Concerning the Nature and Extent of The Church Catholic, New York, N.Y.: E[dward] P[ayson] Dutton and Company […], page 272:

     This clear identification of Bishop and Priest as belonging to one and the same order, and (as a consequence of this, to say nothing of other reasons) the recognition of all Presbyterially governed Churches as true parts of the Catholic Church, was an undisputed point even at the very outset of the reformation, that is to say, even when the Anglican Reformers had not yet got their bearings on many other matters, such for example, as the Mass, the Seven Sacraments, etc.

   • 1982, Frederick A[bbott] Norwood, editor, Sourcebook of American Methodism, Nashville, Tenn.: Abingdon Press, published 1984, →ISBN, page 365:

     Q. Do you mean that the ordination of the A.M.E. Church is Episcopally historic? A. I mean that it is Presbyterially historic, or, in other words, that through the ordination of four Methodist ministers and Absalom Jones, a Priest of the Protestant Episcopal Church, Bishop Allen received a succession of hands, though through Priests, Presbyters, or elders, which gives his ordination the stamp of primitive Christianity, and made him, through the call of the entire church an ECCLESIASTICAL BISHOP, though not prelatically apostolical.

   • 1991, The History of First Presbyterian Church, Raleigh, North Carolina, 1816-1991, Raleigh, N.C.: […] Commercial Printing Co., page 28:

     The man was soon to come whose long ministry to the congregation was to provide a blessing indeed. This was the Rev. Drury Lacy, the first Presbyterially installed pastor of the church.