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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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"Ministerial" Quotes from Famous Books

... from the freedom of his discourse, concluded he was a ministerial spy, and communicated his opinion to his uncle in a whisper, while this misanthrope continued to pour forth his invectives with a fluency peculiar to himself. The truth is, Mr. Ferret had been a party writer, not from principle, but employment, and had felt ...

— The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves • Tobias Smollett

... The produce, instead of being spent upon the island, is transmitted to Lisbon: surely a portion of it might be diverted from bureaucratic pockets and converted into an emigration fund. It is sad to think that a single stroke of the Ministerial pen would set all right and give new life to the lovely island, and yet that the pen ...

— To the Gold Coast for Gold - A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.--Vol. I • Richard F. Burton

... a school at the age of only seventeen, and at the head of his class, had he not exercised tremendous energy. Still further do any of the readers who chance to read this volume think that he was picked up bodily and placed in the ministerial chair vacated by the gifted Buckminister when he was only nineteen because he was lucky? A city preacher at nineteen! Occupying one of the first pulpits in the land at nineteen! "Why, he was gifted." Of course he was, and he ...

— Hidden Treasures - Why Some Succeed While Others Fail • Harry A. Lewis

... of oppressive misrule—had adopted to remedy existing evils. After the dissolution of the Directory France cannot be said to have been in a state of anarchy, and the long and bloody wars with which Napoleon is usually blamed should rather be charged to that government and imbecile ministerial policy that lost to England the American colonies. The series of battles from Marengo to Waterloo are as much the creation of the cabinet of George III as those from Concord to Yorktown. Waterloo involved ...

— History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present - Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance • Peter Charles Remondino

... As his ministerial credentials were thus discredited, even while he stood by the mercy-seat, as priest of the Most High, so when he performed the social part of his pastoral functions, his visits to his flock exposed him ...

— The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 - An Historical Novel • Jane West

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