Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an apostolic manner.
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- adverb In an apostolic manner.
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- adverb In an
apostolic way.
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Examples
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What the Church is sent apostolically to do is to make saints, i.e., to make humans completely human.
Archive 2004-11-01 Julie D. 2004
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What the Church is sent apostolically to do is to make saints, i.e., to make humans completely human.
Apostleship Julie D. 2004
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Christian blood, and believe they have then most apostolically defended the
In Praise of Folly c. 1466-1536 1958
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No disposition was too perverse for his efforts at reform; no heart was so black that he did not at least try the balm of healing upon it; no relapses could tire out his patience, which, without weak waste of means still apostolically went on 'hoping all things,' while even a dying spark of good feeling remained.
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By the laying on of the hands of the presbytery was Timothy himself ordained: he was apostolically authorized and directed to ordain others; and informed that these directions are to be observed, _till the day of Jesus Christ_, 1 Tim. iv.
The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London
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Derain, Matisse, and Vlaminck began picking up such pieces as they could find in old curiosity and pawn shops; with Guillaume Apollinaire, literary apostle, following apostolically at their heels.
Since Cézanne Clive Bell 1922
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No one, he maintains, has a right so to term himself universal bishop as to usurp that apostolically constituted power.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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He should have been unfrocked the next week, not for performing a function apostolically derived, but for spreading a report -- I wait to fasten it on him -- that before marriage she was no better than she should be.
Lady Good-for-Nothing Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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Already for more than a half-century the Moravian episcopate had been present and most apostolically active in America.
A History of American Christianity 1830-1907 1897
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Recent events in the Catholic Church in America tend to reassure all minds on an important point on which not bigots and alarmists only, but liberal-minded citizens apostolically willing to “look not only on their own things but also on the things of others,” have found reasonable ground for anxiety.
A History of American Christianity 1830-1907 1897
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