sacramentally

adv

Etymology

From sacramental + -ly.

Definitions

  1. In a sacramental manner.

    • […] in the supper, or in the bread and wine (which two retaine their propre substaunces) they are Sacramentally or spiritually present, not substancially or bodily.
    • “But I have made up my mind that I am not your wife! I belong to him—I sacramentally joined myself to him for life. Nothing can alter it!”
    • He saw himself giving a little book to Sir Bussy almost sacramentally. “Here,” he would say, “is a book to set you thinking […].”

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