parsonical, a.
(pɑːˈsɒnɪkəl)
[f. as prec. + -ical.]
= prec. So parˈsonically adv., after the manner of a parson.
| 1750 Chesterfield Lett. (1774) III. 14, I am not stoically advising, nor parsonically preaching to you. 1834 Ld. Sherbrooke in Life I. 97 Please to let me know how your parsonical duties go on. 1902 Irish Rosary VI. 77/2 His [sc. Herrick's] verse..is on the whole more poetical than parsonical. 1972 Times 13 Oct. 3/6, I never wear a parsonical collar unless someone asks me to. 1976 Church Times 20 Aug. 7/3 The advent of the tape-recorder has, one hopes, eradicated the worst aberrations of the parsonical voice. |