Minister
['mɪnɪstə] or ['mɪnɪstɚ]
Definition
(noun.) the job of a head of a government department.
(noun.) a diplomat representing one government to another; ranks below ambassador.
(noun.) a person appointed to a high office in the government; 'Minister of Finance'.
(verb.) work as a minister; 'She is ministering in an old parish'.
(verb.) attend to the wants and needs of others; 'I have to minister to my mother all the time'.
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Definition
(n.) A servant; a subordinate; an officer or assistant of inferior rank; hence, an agent, an instrument.
(n.) An officer of justice.
(n.) One to whom the sovereign or executive head of a government intrusts the management of affairs of state, or some department of such affairs.
(n.) A representative of a government, sent to the court, or seat of government, of a foreign nation to transact diplomatic business.
(n.) One who serves at the altar; one who performs sacerdotal duties; the pastor of a church duly authorized or licensed to preach the gospel and administer the sacraments.
(n.) To furnish or apply; to afford; to supply; to administer.
(v. i.) To act as a servant, attendant, or agent; to attend and serve; to perform service in any office, sacred or secular.
(v. i.) To supply or to things needful; esp., to supply consolation or remedies.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Administrator (of executive authority), executive officer (of a sovereign or of a government).[2]. Ambassador, envoy, plenipotentiary.[3]. Clergyman, divine, priest, parson, ecclesiastic, churchman.
v. a. Give, afford, supply, furnish.
v. n. Serve, perform service, do service.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Attend, subserve, wait, supply
ANT:Lead, rule, command, exact
SYN:Servant, officer, delegate, official, ambassador, subordinate, ecclesiastic,clergyman, priest, parson, divine, preacher, pastor, shepherd, reverend,curate, vicar
ANT:Monarch, government, master, superior, principal, head, layman, told, flock,congregation
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Definition
n. a servant: one who serves at the altar: a clergyman: one transacting business for another: the responsible head of a department of state affairs: the representative of a government at a foreign court.—v.i. to act as a servant: to perform duties: to supply or do things needful.—v.t. to furnish:—pr.p. min′istering; pa.p. min′istered.—adj. Ministē′rial pertaining to the work of a servant: acting under superior authority: pertaining to the office of a minister: clerical: executive.—n. Ministē′rialist one who supports ministers or the government in office.—adv. Ministē′rially.—adj. Min′istering attending and serving.—n. Ministē′rium the body of the ordained ministers in a district.—adj. Min′istrant administering: attendant.—n. Ministrā′tion the act of ministering or performing service: office or service of a minister.—adj. Min′istrātive serving to aid or assist: ministering.—ns. Min′istress a female minister; Min′istry act of ministering: service: office or duties of a minister: the clergy: the clerical profession: the body of ministers who manage the business of the country.
Editor: Peter
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of seeing a minister, denotes unfortunate changes and unpleasant journeys. To hear a minister exhort, foretells that some designing person will influence you to evil. To dream that you are a minister, denotes that you will usurp another's rights. See Preacher and Priest.
Editor: Rhoda
Unserious Contents or Definition
n. An agent of a higher power with a lower responsibility. In diplomacy an officer sent into a foreign country as the visible embodiment of his sovereign's hostility. His principal qualification is a degree of plausible inveracity next below that of an ambassador.
Checker: Roy
Examples
- As I could not understand or speak a word of French, I went to see our minister, Mr. Whitelaw Reid, and got him to send a deputy to answer for me, which he did, with my grateful thanks. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The great minister showed perceptible hesitation. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- The Prime Minister rose from the settee. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- She found in an upper-class official, Calonne, her ideal minister of finance. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- For even the Son of Man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The magistrates of the town, hearing of my letter, received me as a public minister. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Wherever the party stopped, and an opportunity was offered, Mr. Jos left his own card and the Major's upon Our Minister. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- At every court there were groups of ministers and secretaries who played a Machiavellian game against their foreign rivals. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Inquiries have shown that his Ministers know nothing of the matter. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Ministers and Opposition joined. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- And I call on you, spirits of the dead; and on you, wandering ministers of vengeance, to aid and conduct me in my work. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Many wise and true sermons are preached us every day by unconscious ministers in street, school, office, or home. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Great ministers and statesmen courted him; and in Vanity Fair he had a higher place than the most brilliant genius or spotless virtue. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Those who were appointed of old to go to wicked kings and accuse them--were they not ministers and servants? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- As to the idea of releasing himself by ministering to the sharpness of Dodson & Fogg, it never for an instant entered his thoughts. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- As Johnny murmured something in his placid admiration, the ministering women at his bed's head asked him what he said. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Whatever credit it receives, whatever reverence we give it, is derived from its utility in ministering to those concrete experiences which are as obvious and as undefinable as color or sound. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- I delight to find her at fault; and were I always resident with her, I am aware she would be no niggard in thus ministering to my enjoyment. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- For even the Son of Man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- One of them--a clerical friend--kindly helped me to take sittings for our little party in the church in which he himself ministered. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- There was a classical daughter once--perhaps--who ministered to her father in his prison as her mother had ministered to her. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- I wondered who it could be who ministered to me. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Let his wants be ministered to with all care--look to it, Oswald. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Everything in her surroundings ministered to feelings of ease and amenity. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
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