clerically

clerical +‎ -ly

clerically (comparative more clerically, superlative most clerically)

1. In a clerical manner; as a cleric.
   • 1839, Edgar Allan Poe, William Wilson‎:

     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 snuffy habiliments, administered, ferule in hand, the Draconian laws of the academy?

   • 1911, G. K. Chesterton, “The Blue Cross”, in The Innocence of Father Brown‎:

     Among the black and breaking groups in that distance was one especially black which did not break—a group of two figures clerically clad.

   • 1942, Emily Carr, “The Bishop and the Canary”, in The Book of Small:

     His plump hands were transparent against the clerically black vest.