ministerially

1. 1.

   in the manner of a minister or clergyman

   “he was called on to visit ministerially on the dying man”

Questions about ministerially

What does ministerially mean?

ministerially means "in the manner of a minister or clergyman".

How many syllables are in ministerially?

ministerially has 6 syllables and divides as mi-ni-ste-ri-al-ly under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is ministerially a common word?

ministerially is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.