The Collaborative International Dictionary
Minister \Min"is*ter\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ministered; p. pr. & vb. n. Ministering.] [OE. ministren, OF. ministrer, fr. L. ministrare. See Minister, n.] To furnish or apply; to afford; to supply; to administer.
He that ministereth seed to the sower.
--2 Cor. ix.
10.
We minister to God reason to suspect us.
--Jer. Taylor.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: minister)
Usage examples of "ministered".
He had ministered to Mischik and arranged for him to come back the next day and see if the tooth was settling in.
Prater Robert, who had ministered here before Hugh, had slept on a cot in the nave.
At times of my life, nothing has ministered to me more than those two things!
Have you ever ministered to a dying man and seen the light come into his eyes when he hears from your lips that he is being embraced by the arms of his faith?
Each year his simple rustic life gave further evidence of his exÂceptional faith: he ministered to the poor, elevated the status of blacks in his part of New Jersey, traveled up the Susquehanna to check on the government’s treatment of Indians, and went on his own meager funds to England to study conditions there, always evidencing a simple belief in the goodness of God.
He, too, ministered to the poor, finding homes for no less than thirty orphaned children.