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ministerial

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Word definitions for ministerial in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Related to a religious minister or ministry. 2 Related to a governmental minister or ministry. 3 Having the power to wield delegated executive authority. 4 (context Especially law English) Serving as an instrument or means (i.e., procedural or ancillary, ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. of or relating to a minister of religion or the minister's office; "ministerial duties" of or relating to a government minister or ministry; "ministerial decree"

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ministerial \Min`is*te"ri*al\, a. [L. ministerialis: cf. F. minist['e]riel. See Minister , and cf. Minstrel .] Of or pertaining to ministry or service; serving; attendant. Enlightening spirits and ministerial flames. --Prior. Of or pertaining to the ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1560s, of religion; 1650s, of state; in some uses from Middle French ministériel and directly from Medieval Latin ministerialis "pertaining to service, of a minister," from Latin ministerium (see ministry ); in some cases probably directly from minister ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a government/departmental/ministerial committee cabinet/ministerial rank â–ª As promised, a minister of cabinet rank has now been appointed to supervise its operation presidential/royal/ministerial etc duties (= duties ...

Usage examples of ministerial.

The simple truth evoked was, that while a committee of the house supposed that they were possessed of full and complete reports, they were supplied with only curt and crude extracts, calculated to place matters in the ministerial light, but not really affording the committee the opinions of those whose views they purported to be.

Madison, in the case both of appointees by the President and Senate and by the President alone, a purely ministerial act which has been lodged by statute with the Secretary of State and the performance of which may be compelled by mandamus unless the appointee has been in the meantime validly removed.

In the morning the Abbe Gama brought me a great book filled with ministerial letters from which I was to compile for my amusement.

Having been adjudged guilty, he was deposed from his office as Bishop of Natal, and thenceforth prohibited from the exercise of all ministerial functions within any part of the metropolitical province of Cape Town.

Baudolino had told him that the two of them had met at Gallipoli, in the days of the emperor Frederick, but if Baudolino had been there, he had been surrounded by many other ministerials, whereas Niketas, who was negotiating in the name of the basileus, had been far more visible.

That Monday morning Cadbury was down in Bonn, where a ministerial press conference was scheduled.

Diefenbaker thus placed Menzies in the position of either having to disobey a prime ministerial directive or having to violate the sanctity of his civil service status.

Rome, the least the New Orleans Protestant Ministerial Association could do, in the interest of Christian brotherhood, would be to accept the Reverend Wilson into their company.

The series of contributions extends from September of 1811 until April of the following year, and appears to have nearly come to a premature and abrupt close in the intermediate July, when an article written by Coleridge in strong opposition to the proposed reinstatement of the Duke of York in the command-in-chief was, by ministerial influence, suppressed before publication.

Zealous in his ministerial labours, blameless in his life and habits, he yet did not appear to enjoy that mental serenity, that inward content, which should be the reward of every sincere Christian and practical philanthropist.

In the morning the Abbe Gama brought me a great book filled with ministerial letters from which I was to compile for my amusement.

Coleridge is never for long together a mere declaimer on popular rights and ministerial tyranny, and even this indignant address contains a passage of extremely just and thoughtful analysis of the constituent elements of despotism.

By this time, also, other ministerial babykins had come toddling into the march in my rear, to share with me the soberness and separation of our calling.

The reader must have haunted the bureaus of the ministerial departments before he can realize how much their petty and belittling life resembles that of seminaries.

It was Tungata who had signed a special ministerial order allowing Craig to export his self built yacht Bawu from the territory in the face of the rigid exchange, control laws which forbade the removal of even a refrigerator or an iron -k.