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Quotation dates: 1596, 1649-1684
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Ministerial(l, a. [e.m.E. ministerial (1561).] Pertaining to ministers of the church; of a minister of the church; befitting a minister. — 1596 James VI in Facs. Nat. MSS. III. lxxiii.
As to the ministeriall maitteris [etc.] 1649 Brechin Presb. 9.
Deposed … from the ministerial calling 1675 Moray Synod 162. 1680 S. Ronaldshay 63. 1684 Dunkeld Presb. II. 429.
Circumspect and ministeriall in his carriage
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