Crossword clues for ministration
ministration
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ministration \Min`is*tra"tion\, n. [L. ministratio, fr.
ministrare.]
The act of ministering; service; ministry. ``The days of his
ministration.''
--Luke i. 23.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-14c., "the action of ministering or serving," from Old French ministration or directly from Latin ministrationem (nominative ministratio), noun of action from past participle stem of ministrare "to serve" (see minister (v.)).
Wiktionary
n. the act of ministering
WordNet
Usage examples of "ministration".
He looked down upon the bobbing head, whose ministrations he began to feel ever more powerfully, and was taken by the heart shaped buttocks rising creamily behind it.
He wondered, as sleep overcame him despite her ministrations, which of those times was more responsible for the nature of this woman.
However heterodox in doctrine, he was still wedded to the observances of the Church, and practised them, under the ministration of the Recollets, with an assiduity that made full amends to his conscience for the vivacity with which he opposed the rest of the clergy.
His gentle ministration bespoke more than husbandly duty, and she was hopeful that he was growing to care for her more.
He felt each ministration of nature to be his friend, and man, in every guise, to be his enemy.
And I knew that if at any time I had been in need of his ministrations he would have coped admirably.
Progenitors of all that yet is great, Ascribe to your bright senate, O accept In your high ministrations, us, your sons-- Us first, and the more glorious yet to come!
Her thighs fell open helplessly under his ministrations, allowing him free rein, and he took full advantage, his mouth and hands stroking and caressing, delving and withdrawing, wickedly teasing until she was gasping and writhing and moaning his name.
The depicted woman sagged backward into the grass, hiking up her skirts, leaving ample evidence that her ministrations had been successful.
I stand on my rights to continue my ministrations till such time as the lawful authority sets me aside.
Peter Pennecuik, they forbore even to grace the orthodox ministrations of Mr.
Lightly rolling them with the tips of her fingers, enjoying feeling them come alive under her ministrations and grow to hard little pebbles of desire.
She groaned, but continued her oral ministrations without the smallest interruption.
Unable to remain passive as he persisted in his engrossing oral ministrations, her hands pressured his bead toward the yearning hole that screamed for him.
I succumbed to his ministrations, exploring his body willingly as he touched mine.