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noun. One who is authorized to perform religious functions in a Christian church, especially a Protestant church.

noun. The superior in certain orders.

noun. A high officer of state appointed to head an executive or administrative department of government.

noun. An authorized diplomatic representative of a government, usually ranking next below an ambassador.

noun. A person serving as an agent for another by carrying out specified orders or functions.

intransitive verb. To attend to the wants and needs of others: synonym: tend.

intransitive verb. To perform the functions of a cleric.

intransitive verb. To administer or dispense (a sacrament, for example).

To furnish, supply, or afford; give; serve: as, to minister consolation.

To perform; render.

Synonyms Administer, Minister. See administer.

To act as a minister or attendant; perform service of any kind.

To afford supplies; give things needful; furnish means of relief or remedy.

To contribute; be of service.

To serve.

Synonyms Administer to, Minister to (see administer), contribute to, serve, assist, help, succor, wait upon.

noun. One who performs service for another, or executes another's will; one who is subservient; an agent, servant, or attendant.

noun. One who acts as a medium or dispenser; an administrator or promoter: as, a minister of God's will, of justice, etc.; a minister of peace or charity.

noun. In politics: One of the persons appointed by the sovereign or chief magistrate of a country as the responsible heads of the different departments of the government; a minister of state: as, the minister of foreign affairs, of the interior, of finance, of war. of justice, etc.

noun. A diplomatic representative of a country abroad; a person accredited by the executive authority of one country to that of another as its agent for communication and the transaction of business between the two governments; specifically, the political representative of a state in another state, in contradistinction to an ambassador, who holds a nominally higher rank as in general the personal representative of the sovereign or chief of the state at the court of another sovereign.

noun. Eccles., in the New Testament, a servant of God, God's word, Christ, or the church; an officer of the church; an attendant or assistant (Acts xiii. 5): translating διάκονος (whence deacon), but sometimes λειτουργός (liturge) orὑπηρέτης (an assistant); hence, any member of the ministry.

noun. An officer of justice.

noun. The catfish, Amiurus nebulosus: apparently so called from the silvery white throat, contrasting with the dark back, and likened to a clergyman's white necktie.

transitive verb. To furnish or apply; to afford; to supply; to administer.

noun. A servant; a subordinate; an officer or assistant of inferior rank; hence, an agent, an instrument.

noun. An officer of justice.

noun. One to whom the sovereign or executive head of a government intrusts the management of affairs of state, or some department of such affairs.

noun. A representative of a government, sent to the court, or seat of government, of a foreign nation to transact diplomatic business.

noun. 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.

intransitive verb. To act as a servant, attendant, or agent; to attend and serve; to perform service in any office, sacred or secular.

intransitive verb. To supply or to things needful; esp., to supply consolation or remedies.

noun. A person who is trained to perform religious ceremonies at a Protestant church.

noun. A politician who heads a ministry (national or regional government department for public service).

noun. At a diplomacy, the rank of diplomat directly below ambassador

noun. Someone who serves others.

verb. To attend to; to tend.

verb. (archaic) To afford, to give, to supply.

verb. attend to the wants and needs of others

noun. the job of a head of a government department

verb. work as a minister

noun. a person authorized to conduct religious worship

noun. a person appointed to a high office in the government

noun. a diplomat representing one government to another; ranks below ambassador

"The author and the minister did their parts in the ordinary pursuit of their vocations; but the _author_ did his part impersonally and indirectly, whilst the _minister_ did his part personally and face to face."

cleric  father  minister's rental  ministers of the sick  parson  

ministerial  ministerium  ministry  

ministered  ministering  

attend  diplomat  diplomatist  look  see  

administer  sinister  

bishop  citizen  doctor  gentleman  governor  

DD  Doctor of Divinity  Holy Joe  abbe  accommodate  

ministered  ministering  ministers