adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.]
1. By the action or authority of a synod; synodally.
a. 1604. Hanmer, Chron. Irel. (1633), 125. But I may not so leave my Prelates, they synodically decreed as followeth [etc.].
1618. Hales, Gold. Rem., II. (1673), 25. Which sentence passed by the major part of Voices, and was Synodically concluded.
1703. W. Wake, State of Ch., 507. To be observ’d … within the Province … of York too, who had not yet Synodically Agreed to it.
1841. Bp. Blomfield, Lett., in A. Blomfield, Mem. (1863), II. i. 21. There is no intention of passing any episcopal sentence upon Mr. Newman’s Tract: that is to say, the Bishops will not do so synodically.
2. In synod, as a synod.
a. 1617. Bayne, Diocesan’s Tryall (1621), 4. If they might meete Synodically.
1687. J. Kirkwood, Lett. Boyle, B.’s Wks. 1772, I. p. cxciii. The bishop of Ross, with the clergy of his diocese synodically assembled.
1850. S. Wilberforce, in R. G. Wilberforce, Life (1881), II. ii. 63. The Bishop and clergy of this diocese synodically gathered in this our cathedral city of Oxford.
