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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
ministerial
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a government/departmental/ministerial committee
cabinet/ministerial rank
▪ As promised, a minister of cabinet rank has now been appointed to supervise its operation
presidential/royal/ministerial etc duties (=duties that go with being a president, member of a royal family, a minister etc)
▪ The prince is now old enough to carry out royal duties.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
colleague
▪ When the case came to ministerial colleagues, it was these arguments that prevailed.
▪ I am sure that one of my ministerial colleagues will want to inform the House tomorrow.
▪ The general impatience among intellectuals, journalists ... And some of your ministerial colleagues?
committee
▪ Its work will be backed up by a new ministerial committee.
level
▪ How then could one get the necessary co-ordination at ministerial level and make a reality of collective discussion and responsibility?
▪ Any other questions should be dealt with at ministerial level.
meeting
▪ A ministerial meeting in Venice agreed to this and in June work began to draft the treaties.
▪ He / she participates in Troika ministerial meetings. 21.
▪ Uniscan was not complex, but simply based upon consultation at the highest bureaucratic level, with occasional ministerial meetings.
▪ The committee had been conceived during a ministerial meeting between the two countries in Seoul in November 1990.
▪ The proposal failed to win unanimous endorsement at a subsequent ministerial meeting on Oct. 19.
▪ The full summer ministerial meeting scheduled for May 21 would review the position and policy for the remainder of the year.
▪ The final decision is expected to be taken at a special ministerial meeting in July of this year.
office
▪ Too large an increase in personal taxation could lose them votes and deny them further ministerial office.
▪ After occupying junior ministerial office from his first year in Parliament, he became Economic Secretary to the Treasury in 1955.
▪ High priority is given to any of their senior members who have held ministerial office.
▪ Mrs Currie, an ardent self-publicist, had been keen to return to ministerial office.
▪ And he has done so despite the ups and downs of his political career and his flirting with ministerial office.
▪ I have rarely met two Ministers who take more trouble to carry out the duties of their ministerial office.
▪ Further, the longer a party has been in opposition, the fewer of its leaders will have had ministerial office.
▪ Cranbourne has held ministerial office before.
post
▪ He intends to continue teaching, combining these activities with those of his ministerial post.
▪ This was followed by weeks of bargaining with the smaller parties over ministerial posts and policies.
▪ The provincial coalition government is already shaky, with opposition members bought off with ministerial posts.
▪ They had declared the presidency and all ministerial posts vacant.
▪ There were also substantial differences over the composition of the new government in terms of the allocation of ministerial posts.
responsibility
▪ In practice, however, the precise boundaries of ministerial responsibility are often difficult to define.
▪ In any event the sheer volume and variety of bodies under departmental sponsorship often makes ministerial responsibility something of a myth.
▪ The relationship between Government and Parliament can only be understood against the background of the convention of ministerial responsibility.
▪ In this way the concept of ministerial responsibility is maintained.
▪ Clearly, orthodox ministerial responsibility could not be extended to them without undermining the arm's length principle.
▪ The cabinet is similarly responsible to Parliament through the convention of collective ministerial responsibility.
▪ Of these, by far the most important is the convention of ministerial responsibility.
▪ How could I make proposals on social security without mentioning National Insurance for which I had ministerial responsibility?
statement
▪ These come in various formats - White Papers, departmental policy documents and ministerial statements, and speeches.
▪ New policies are expressed as much in ministerial statements, White Papers and circulars to the local authorities as in new statutes.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ ministerial committees
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A fair amount is conducted by ministerial correspondence, a perfectly acceptable method in constitutional terms.
▪ A year later she was again arrested for throwing stones at a ministerial car during a political meeting in Liverpool.
▪ I do not expect the Minister to say that the matter is outwith his ministerial remit.
▪ On the right, victory seems so close that there has already been infighting over future seats in parliament and ministerial portfolios.
▪ One of the most ambitious of the Presbyterian preachers who embodied the new ministerial style was the Reverend Lyman Beecher.
▪ The most important prime ministerial appointments will be those of the members of Cabinet.
▪ The proposal failed to win unanimous endorsement at a subsequent ministerial meeting on Oct. 19.
▪ There is already talk about the need to explore some form of ministerial rule which would make the government accountable.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ministerial

Ministerial \Min`is*te"ri*al\, a. [L. ministerialis: cf. F. minist['e]riel. See Minister, and cf. Minstrel.]

  1. Of or pertaining to ministry or service; serving; attendant.

    Enlightening spirits and ministerial flames.
    --Prior.

  2. Of or pertaining to the office of a minister or to the ministry as a body, whether civil or sacerdotal. ``Ministerial offices.''
    --Bacon. ``A ministerial measure.''
    --Junius. ``Ministerial garments.''
    --Hooker.

  3. Tending to advance or promote; contributive. ``Ministerial to intellectual culture.''
    --De Quincey.

    The ministerial benches, the benches in the House of Commons occupied by members of the cabinet and their supporters; -- also, the persons occupying them. ``Very solid and very brilliant talents distinguish the ministerial benches.''
    --Burke.

    Syn: Official; priestly; sacerdotal; ecclesiastical.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
ministerial

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 or ministry.

Wiktionary
ministerial

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, not substantive).

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WordNet
ministerial

  1. adj. of or relating to a minister of religion or the minister's office; "ministerial duties"

  2. of or relating to a government minister or ministry; "ministerial decree"

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.