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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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"Minister" Quotes from Famous Books



... to a church one Sunday night. There was nothing of importance that struck me during the service, save the reading of one of the lessons. It was the story of the youth who was possessed with a devil, which the disciples could not cast out. The minister was, I should think, a good man, for he read it naturally, and with a great deal of power; and when he came to the part where Jesus came and caused the evil spirit to come out of him, my heart throbbed with joy. Was there ...
— Weapons of Mystery • Joseph Hocking
... Isthmus of Panama has become of transcendent importance to the United States. We have repeatedly exercised this control by intervening in the course of domestic dissension, and by protecting the territory from foreign invasion. In 1853 Mr. Everett assured the Peruvian minister that we should not hesitate to maintain the neutrality of the Isthmus in the case of war between Peru and Colombia. In 1864 Colombia, which has always been vigilant to avail itself of its privileges conferred by the treaty, expressed its expectation that in the event ...
— Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present • Various
... of "poor preaching" reminds me of what I once heard Edward Everett say, who, before becoming his country's "Minister," in the diplomatic sense of the word, had been a powerful and eloquent Unitarian preacher: "I hear a good deal of criticism upon sermons which are supposed to be religious or moral exhortations, not intellectual exercises. I dare say many sermons are not first rate, ...
— Records of a Girlhood • Frances Anne Kemble
... that point, Lord Darcy closed the lock again. "Now, men, we have the gun located. We also know that a guest in this very castle is Laird Duncan of Duncan. The Duncan of Duncan himself. A Scot's laird who was, fifteen years ago, His Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary to the Free Grand Duchy of Milan. That suggests to me that it would be indeed odd if there were not some connection between Laird Duncan ...
— The Eyes Have It • Gordon Randall Garrett
... years old I went to Mr Case's school." (A day-school at Shrewsbury kept by the Rev G. Case, Minister of the ...
— Darwin and Modern Science • A.C. Seward and Others


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