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Minister   /mˈɪnəstər/  /mˈɪnɪstər/   Listen
noun
Minister  n.  
1.
A servant; a subordinate; an officer or assistant of inferior rank; hence, an agent, an instrument. "Moses rose up, and his minister Joshua." "I chose Camillo for the minister, to poison My friend Polixenes."
2.
An officer of justice. (Obs.) "I cry out the on the ministres, quod he, That shoulde keep and rule this cité."
3.
One to whom the sovereign or executive head of a government intrusts the management of affairs of state, or some department of such affairs. "Ministers to kings, whose eyes, ears, and hands they are, must be answerable to God and man."
4.
A representative of a government, sent to the court, or seat of government, of a foreign nation to transact diplomatic business. Note: Ambassadors are classed (in the diplomatic sense) in the first rank of public ministers, ministers plenipotentiary in the second. "The United States diplomatic service employs two classes of ministers, ministers plenipotentiary and ministers resident."
5.
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.
Synonyms: Delegate; official; ambassador; clergyman; parson; priest.



verb
Minister  v. t.  (past & past part. ministered; pres. part. ministering)  To furnish or apply; to afford; to supply; to administer. "He that ministereth seed to the sower." "We minister to God reason to suspect us."



Minister  v. i.  
1.
To act as a servant, attendant, or agent; to attend and serve; to perform service in any office, sacred or secular. "The Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister."
2.
To supply or to things needful; esp., to supply consolation or remedies; as, to minister to the sick. "Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased?"






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... Story, a minister of the Society of Friends, and member of Penn's Council of State, who, while on a religious visit to England, wrote to James Logan that he had read on the stratified rocks of Scarborough, as from the finger of ...
— The Complete Works of Whittier - The Standard Library Edition with a linked Index • John Greenleaf Whittier

... expression of winning gentleness and simplicity upon his tranquil countenance. He roused up and gave me good-day. I told him a friend of mine had commissioned me to make some inquiries about a cherished companion of his boyhood, named Leonidas W. Smiley—Rev. Leonidas W. Smiley, a young minister of the gospel, who he had heard was at one time a resident of Angel's Camp. I added that, if Mr. Wheeler could tell me anything about this Rev. Leonidas W. Smiley, I would feel under many ...
— The Bed-Book of Happiness • Harold Begbie

... But one man was found, like David of old, who, gathering his smooth pebble of fact from the brook of God's eternal truth, boldly met the boastful and erroneous public sentiment of the hour. That man was the Rev. Justin D. Fulton, a Baptist minister of Albany, New York. He was chosen to preach the funeral sermon of Col. Elsworth, and performed that duty on Sunday, May 26, 1861. Speaking of slavery, the reverend ...
— History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) - Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens • George Washington Williams

... I went to night school a little, but most of my schooling was got by the plow. After I come to be a minister ...
— Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Arkansas Narratives, Part 4 • Works Projects Administration

... with the wise, the good, the learned, and the polite. Nor with them only, but with every kind of character, from the minister at his levee, to the bailiff in his spunging-house; from the dutchess at her drum, to the landlady behind her bar. From thee only can the manners of mankind be known; to which the recluse pedant, however great his parts ...
— The History of Tom Jones, a foundling • Henry Fielding


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