The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ecclesiastically
Ecclesiastically \Ec*cle`si*as"tic*al*ly\, adv. In an ecclesiastical manner; according ecclesiastical rules.
Wiktionary
ecclesiastically
adv. in an ecclesiastic manner
WordNet
ecclesiastically
adv. in an ecclesiastic manner; "the candidate was ecclesiastically endorsed"
Usage examples of "ecclesiastically".
Ecclesiastically and doctrinally they stood in the open, while Romanist and Protestant, Anglican and Puritan, Calvinist and Arminian waged bitter war, filling the air with angry maledictions.
In the ecclesiastically consecrated character three minor branches of self-mortification have been recognized as indispensable pathways to perfection.