sacramentally

English

Etymology

From sacramental +‎ -ly.

Adverb

sacramentally (comparative more sacramentally, superlative most sacramentally)

1. In a sacramental manner.
   • 1572, John Coxe, transl., Questions of Religion Cast Abroad in Helvetia by the Adversaries of the Same, and Aunswered by M. H. Bullinger of Zurick‎^[1], London: George Byshop, page 92b:

     […] 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.

   • 1895, Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure‎^[2], Part 6, Chapter 3:

     “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!”

   • 1930, H. G. Wells, The Autocracy of Mr. Parham‎^[3], London: Heinemann, Book 1, Chapter 4:

     He saw himself giving a little book to Sir Bussy almost sacramentally. “Here,” he would say, “is a book to set you thinking […] .”

   • 1954, Alan W. Watts, chapter 6, in Myth and Ritual in Christianity, New York: Grove Press, published 1960, page 191:

     The Christian rites for the coronation of kings make it very clear that the temporal monarch is in some sense being ordained, for he is sacramentally anointed and has the hands of the bishop laid upon him in the same manner as at the ordination of a priest.