Minister vs Slave - What's the difference?
minister | slave |
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)
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
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
To attend to (the needs of); to tend; to take care (of); to give aid; to give service.
to function as a clergyman or as the officiant in church worship
(archaic) To afford, to give, to supply.
* Bible, 2 Corinthians ix. 10
* Jeremy Taylor
* 1610 , , act 2 scene 1
A person who is the property of another person and whose labor and also whose life often is subject to the owner's volition.
A person who is legally obliged by prior contract (oral or written) to work for another, with contractually limited rights to bargain; an indentured servant.
One who has lost the power of resistance; one who surrenders to something.
A drudge; one who labours like a slave.
An abject person; a wretch.
A person who is forced against his/her will to perform, for another person or other persons, sexual acts or other personal services on a regular or continuing basis.
(engineering) A device that is controlled by another device.
To work hard.
To enslave.
To place a device under the control of another.
* 2005 , Simon Millward, Fast Guide to Cubase SX (page 403)
As a noun minister
is minister (a person who is commissioned by the government for public service).As a proper noun slave is
.minister
English
Noun
(en noun) (minister)- Ministers to kings, whose eyes, ears, and hands they are, must be answerable to God and man.
- Moses rose up, and his minister Joshua.
- I chose / Camillo for the minister , to poison / My friend Polixenes.
Verb
(en verb)- A newspaper headline: Couple leaves business world to minister to inner-city children
- He that ministereth seed to the sower.
- We minister to God reason to suspect us.
- 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 * vicarExternal links
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* ----slave
English
Alternative forms
: * ** sclaue * ** sclaue ** sclave * ** sclaue ** sklaw ** sklaue ** sklave : * ** slaif ** slaue ** slave (modern spelling developed) * ** slaue ** slave (whenceforth the modern spelling predominated)Noun
(en noun)- a slave to passion, to strong drink, or to ambition
- Art thou the slave that with thy breath hast kill'd/ Mine innocent child? Shakespeare. Much Ado About Nothing.
Derived terms
(terms derived from slave) * antislavery * bondslave * enslave * enslavement * enslaver * no slave to fashion * postslavery * sex slave * sexual slavery * slaveboy * slave code * slavedom * slave driver, slave-driver * Slave Dynasty * slave-girl, slavegirl * slaveholder * slaveholding * slave labour * slaveless * slavelike * slavemaster * slaveowner * slaver * slave to fashion * slavery * slave ship * slave trade * slavey * slavish * wage slave * white slave * white slaver * white slaverySee also
* chattel * indentured servant * * (Slavery)Verb
(slav)- I was slaving all day over a hot stove.
- (Marston)
- to slave a hard disk
- Slaving one digital audio device to another unit using timecode alone results in time-based synchronisation
References
* August 2, 2004 ,"EE Times: Beware 'zombie' clauses* Notes: