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As a noun minister is

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

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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.

    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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