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minister | preach |

As a noun minister

is minister (a person who is commissioned by the government for public service).

As a verb preach is

to preach, preachify.

minister

English

Noun

(en noun) (minister)
  • A person who is trained to perform religious ceremonies at a Protestant church.
  • A politician who heads a ministry (national or regional government department for public service).
  • * (Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
    • Ministers to kings, whose eyes, ears, and hands they are, must be answerable to God and man.
  • At a diplomacy, the rank of diplomat directly below ambassador.
  • A servant; a subordinate; an officer or assistant of inferior rank; hence, an agent, an instrument.
  • * Bible, (w) xxiv. 13
    • Moses rose up, and his minister Joshua.
  • * (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
    • I chose / Camillo for the minister , to poison / My friend Polixenes.

    Related terms

    * ministerial * ministry * ministerium

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To attend to (the needs of); to tend; to take care (of); to give aid; to give service.
    • A newspaper headline: Couple leaves business world to minister to inner-city children
  • to function as a clergyman or as the officiant in church worship
  • (archaic) To afford, to give, to supply.
  • * Bible, 2 Corinthians ix. 10
    • He that ministereth seed to the sower.
  • * Jeremy Taylor
    • We minister to God reason to suspect us.
  • * 1610 , , act 2 scene 1
    • I do well believe your highness; and did it to / minister occasion to these gentlemen [...] (to give opportunity to these gentlemen)

    See also

    * cleric * father * parson * pastor * priest * vicar

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    preach

    English

    Verb

  • To give a sermon.
  • * , chapter=3
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.”  He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.}}
    A local Muslim used to preach from the Quran and hadith.
  • To proclaim by public discourse; to utter in a sermon or a formal religious harangue.
  • * Bible, Isa. lxi. 1
    • The Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek.
  • To advise or recommend earnestly.
  • * Shakespeare
    • My master preaches patience to him.
  • To teach or instruct by preaching; to inform by preaching.
  • * Southey
    • As ye are preached .

    See also

    * praught

    Related terms

    * practice what one preaches * preach to the choir * preach to the converted

    Noun

    (es)
  • (obsolete) A religious discourse.
    • (Hooker)