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/mˌɪnɪstˈɪriəl/ Listen

adjective

Ministerial adj.

Of or pertaining to ministry or service; serving; attendant. "Enlightening spirits and ministerial flames."

Of or pertaining to the office of a minister or to the ministry as a body, whether civil or sacerdotal. "Ministerial offices." "A ministerial measure." "Ministerial garments."

Tending to advance or promote; contributive. "Ministerial to intellectual culture."

The ministerial benches, the benches in the House of Commons occupied by members of the cabinet and their supporters; also, the persons occupying them. "Very solid and very brilliant talents distinguish the ministerial benches."

Synonyms: Official; priestly; sacerdotal; ecclesiastical.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... who introduced the Bill, spoke against it repeatedly in the House; he deleted the milder provisions, inserted more drastic amendments, spoke repeatedly against his own amendments, then in conclusion he would combat his own arguments by calling the ministerial steam-roller to support the Government and vote for the drastic amendments. The only explanation of the puzzle constituted as such by these "hot-and-cold" methods is that Mr. Sauer was legislating for an electorate, at the ...

— Native Life in South Africa, Before and Since • Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje

... in certain articles was a prerogative inherent in the crown; and though the practice so lavishly adopted by Elizabeth of providing in this manner for her courtiers without expense to herself, had rendered the evil almost intolerable, the ministerial members insisted strongly that no right existed in the house to frame a bill for its redress. It was maintained by them, that the dispensing power possessed by the queen would enable her to set at ...

— Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth • Lucy Aikin

... responsibility existing in the United States are borrowed from and identical with those established in England—the most prominent instance of a limited monarchy. See the authorities referred to in the case in Wendell's Reports, before quoted. Discretion in the execution of various ministerial duties, and in the awarding of punishment by judicial officers, is indispensable in every system of government, from the utter impossibility of "laying down beforehand a line of conduct" (as the author expresses it) in such cases. The very instances of discretionary power to which he refers, ...

— American Institutions and Their Influence • Alexis de Tocqueville et al

... a member of the chamber of deputies from his own department, in 1819, though his election was opposed by the ministerial party. Some members rejoiced to see again among them, the "friend and disciple of Washington;" while others, the adherents of monarchy, viewed him with distrust and jealousy, as "the veteran general of the revolution." He ...

— Memoirs of General Lafayette • Lafayette

... heart and soul—you surely cannot mean to carry the thing on any further—you never can intend to assume your ministerial functions by daylight?" ...

— The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Complete • Charles James Lever (1806-1872)

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