noun. undefined

noun. The act of serving; ministration.

noun. One that serves as a means; an instrumentality.

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noun. The profession, duties, and services of a minister.

noun. The Christian clergy.

noun. The period of service of a minister.

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noun. A governmental department presided over by a minister.

noun. The building in which such a department is housed.

noun. The duties, functions, or term of a governmental minister.

noun. Governmental ministers considered as a group.

noun. The act of ministering; the rendering of service; ministration.

noun. The state of ministering or serving; agency; instrumentality.

noun. The office or function of a minister, civil or ecclesiastical; the state of being a minister, in any sense; the exercise of a ministerial office: as, to discharge one's ministry faithfully; to enter the ministry of the gospel; to be appointed to the ministry of war.

noun. The general or a particular body of ministers of religion; the ministerial or clerical class; the clergy or priesthood.

noun. The body of ministers of state in a conntry; the heads of departments collectively; the executive administration: as, to form a ministry; the policy of the British ministry; the French ministry has resigned. In the United States the corresponding body is called the cabinet.

noun. A ministerial department of government; the organization of functionaries administering a branch of public affairs; a minister and his subordinates collectively: as, the ministry of war or of justice.

noun. The act of ministering; ministration; service.

noun. Agency; instrumentality.

noun. The office, duties, or functions of a minister, servant, or agent; ecclesiastical, executive, or ambassadorial function or profession.

noun. The body of ministers of state; also, the clergy, as a body.

noun. Administration; rule; term in power.

noun. Government department, at the administrative level normally headed by a minister (or equivalent rank, e.g. secretary of state), who holds it as portfolio, especially in a constitutional monarchy

noun. The complete body of government ministers (whether or not they are in cabinet) under the leadership of a head of government (such as a prime minister)

noun. A ministration

noun. The active practice and education of the minister of a particular religion or faith.

noun. religious ministers collectively (especially Presbyterian)

noun. the work of a minister of religion

noun. a government department under the direction of a minister

noun. building where the business of a government department is transacted

"And if the horseman of the first seal represented the chosen ministry who went forth in a glorious mission to win trophies of grace, the horseman of this seal must represent _an apostate ministry_, possessing power and authority to enforce the severest exactions upon the bread of life, thus producing a desolating spiritual famine."

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