minister

[min·is·ter]

You might meet a minister of the religious kind a pastor or a rector. Or, you may meet a minister of the government kind a prime minister or a minister of finance, for example.

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

Noun
the job of a head of a government department

Noun
a person authorized to conduct religious worship

Noun
a diplomat representing one government to another; ranks below ambassador

Noun
a person appointed to a high office in the government; "Minister of Finance"

Verb
work as a minister; "She is ministering in an old parish"

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Verb
attend to the wants and needs of others; "I have to minister to my mother all the time"

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

n.
An officer of justice.

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

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

n.
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.

n.
To furnish or apply; to afford; to supply; to administer.

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

v. i.
To supply or to things needful; esp., to supply consolation or remedies.

Minister

Min"is*ter , n. [OE. ministre, F. ministre, fr. L. minister, orig. a double comparative from the root of minor less, and hence meaning, an inferior, a servant. See 1st Minor, and cf. Master, Minstrel.] 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 cit'82.

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. &hand; 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." Abbott. 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. Addison. Syn. -- Delegate; official; ambassador; clergyman; parson; priest.

Minister

Min"is*ter, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ministered ; p. pr. & vb. n. Ministering.] [OE. ministren, OF. ministrer, fr. L. ministrare. See Minister, n.] 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

Min"is*ter, 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. Matt. xxv. 44.

Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased?

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

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

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

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Usage Examples

Baalbek is so beautiful. It is the heart of beauty in the Middle East - I want to embrace these people with my music. I will try so hard for them. Their president is a Christian, their prime minister is a Muslim. Music is for everyone.

I don't just want a better deal for Britain. I want a better deal for Europe too. So I speak as British prime minister with a positive vision for the future of the European Union. A future in which Britain wants, and should want, to play a committed and active part.

For example, the Prime Minister earlier this year talked about the importance of the Arctic to our future. He's right. A hundred years from now, the strength of Canada is going to be coming from our resources in the Arctic.

And I don't think that government has a role in telling people how to live their lives. Maybe a minister does, maybe your belief in God does, maybe there's another set of moral codes, but I don't think government has a role.

An interim government was set up in Afghanistan. It included two women, one of whom was Minister of Women's Affairs. Man, who'd she have to show here ankles to to get that job?

As a doctor, when I was minister of health and would go somewhere, little girls would come up to me and say, 'I want to be like you one day, I want to be a doctor.' Now, they tell me, 'I want to be president just like you.' All of us can dream as big as we want.

A minister has to be able to read a clock. At noon, it's time to go home and turn up the pot roast and get the peas out of the freezer.

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Other Usage Examples

As Prime Minister Netanyahu and Defense Minister Barak have repeatedly said, the intelligence and security relationship between the United States and Israel at present is unprecedented. It has never been stronger.

Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art.

I wish the government and the Minister of Justice would address these legal and constitutional arguments, but they refuse to. They want Canadians to go blindly into their brave new world, but it is not wise for a society to move blindly in any direction.

I grew up in a Hindu household but went to a Roman Catholic school. I grew up with a mother who said, 'I'll arrange a marriage for you at 18,' but she also said that we could achieve anything we put our minds to an encourage us to dream of becoming prime minister or president.

But he is unworthy the name of a minister of the gospel of peace, who is unwilling, not only to have his name cast out as evil, but also to die for the truths of the Lord Jesus.

I believe that it is my responsibility as the prime minister of Israel to do whatever can be done to exploit the unique opportunities that lie ahead of us to move towards peace. Not everything can be done by one act.

I was on leave from local and regional politics, as long as I was a Minister.

I have to express sympathy from the bottom of my heart to those people who were taken as wartime comfort women. As a human being, I would like to express my sympathies, and also as prime minister of Japan I need to apologize to them.