Found 3 items, similar to minister.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak)
Definition: minister
menteri
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: minister
minister
n 1: a person authorized to conduct religious worship [syn:
curate,
parson,
pastor,
rector]
2: a person appointed to a high office in the government;
“Minister of Finance” [syn:
government minister]
3: a diplomat representing one government to another; ranks
below ambassador [syn:
diplomatic minister]
4: the job of a head of a government department
minister
v 1: attend to the wants and needs of others;
“I have to minister
to my mother all the time”
2: work as a minister;
“She is ministering in an old parish”
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Minister
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.]
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1. A servant; a subordinate; an officer or assistant of
inferior rank; hence, an agent, an instrument.
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Moses rose up, and his minister Joshua. --Ex. xxiv.
13.
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I chose
Camillo for the minister, to poison
My friend Polixenes. --Shak.
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2. An officer of justice. [Obs.]
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I cry out the on the ministres, quod he,
That shoulde keep and rule this cit['e]. --Chaucer.
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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.
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Ministers to kings, whose eyes, ears, and hands they
are, must be answerable to God and man. --Bacon.
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4. A representative of a government, sent to the court, or
seat of government, of a foreign nation to transact
diplomatic business.
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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.”
--Abbott.
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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.
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Syn: Delegate; official; ambassador; clergyman; parson;
priest.
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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.
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He that ministereth seed to the sower. --2 Cor. ix.
10.
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We minister to God reason to suspect us. --Jer. Taylor.
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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.
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The Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but
to minister. --Matt. xx.
28.
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2. To supply or to things needful; esp., to supply
consolation or remedies; as, to minister to the sick.
--Matt. xxv. 44.
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Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased? --Shak.
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