Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who ministers.
- adjective Serving attendance on someone.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Ministering; performing service; exercising ministry of any kind.
- noun One who ministers; a servant or dispenser.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Performing service as a minister; attendant on service; acting under command; subordinate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
ministers .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective giving practical help to
- noun someone who serves as a minister
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The ceremonial features (such as the choice of the persons to make the offering) are simply the carrying over of general social arrangements into religious observances -- the ministrant is the father of the family, or the chief of the tribe, or the priest or other elected person, according to the particular local customs.
Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV Crawford Howell Toy 1877
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Ambulationes subdiales, quas hortenses aurae ministrant, sub fornice viridi, pampinis virentibus concameratae.
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The sixth part of my work (to which the rest is subservient and ministrant) discloses and sets forth that philosophy which by the legitimate, chaste, and severe course of inquiry which I have explained and provided is at length developed and established.
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The sixth part of my work (to which the rest is subservient and ministrant) discloses and sets forth that philosophy which by the legitimate, chaste, and severe course of inquiry which I have explained and provided is at length developed and established.
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Si non dat, et postea indigeat seruicio eorum, male ministrant ei.
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Et si nuncius vel aliquis extraneus accedat ad regionem illam, ipsi includunt eum in domo, et ministrant ei necessaria, donec negocium eius fuerit expeditum.
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Et si nuncius vel aliquis extraneus accedat ad regionem illam, ipsi includunt eum in domo, et ministrant ei necessaria, donec negocium eius fuerit expeditum.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Si non dat, et postea indigeat seruicio eorum, male ministrant ei.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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In a letter to one grief-stricken friend who found consolation in The Sceptic, Hemans sounds more the writer sceptical of her own effects – second-guessing her rhetoric, fishing about for compliments – than the ministrant serene in her faith:
'A darkling plain': Hemans, Byron and _The Sceptic; A Poem_ 2001
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Oswald, raised in a moment from the desponding invalid to a terrifying ministrant of retributive justice.
Initials Only 2003
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