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A woman who ministers. Akenside.

The act of ministering; ministration; service. "With tender ministry." Thomson.

The office of a minister. Swift.

Sometimes, a liquid medicine containing very active substances, and which can only be administered by drops. Dunglison.

ld still have been a mob. Madison. Confused by brainless mobs. Tennyson. Mob law, law administered by the mob; lynch law. -- Swell mob, well dressed thieves and swindlers, regarded collectively. [Slang] Dickens.

A sort of ecclesiastical heriot, a customary gift claimed by, and due to, the minister of a parish on the death of a parishioner. It seems to have been originally a voluntary bequest or donation, intended to make amends for any failure in the payment of tithes of which the deceased had been guilty.

Of or pertaining to a city or a corporation having the right of administering local government; as, municipal rights; municipal officers.

Those of a certain name; a race; a family. The ministers of the republic, mortal enemies of his name, came every day to pay their feigned civilities. Motley.

Orig., a method of therapeutic treatment administered, esp. for chronic diseases of the curculatory system, at Bad Nauheim, Germany, by G. Schott, consisting in baths in the natural mineral waters of that place, which are charged with carbonic acid, and the use of a graduated course of rest, physical exercises, massage…

Capable of having an oath administered to. [Obs.] Shak.

ligated by a sense of duty." Proudfit. That's your true plan -- to obligate The present ministers of state. Churchill.

Not straightforward; indirect; obscure; hence, disingenuous; underhand; perverse; sinister. The love we bear our friends... Hath in it certain oblique ends. Drayton. This mode of oblique research, when a more direct one is denied, we find to be the only one in our power. De Quincey. Then would be closed the restless, o…

Offensive; odious; hateful; as, an obnoxious statesman; a minister obnoxious to the Whigs. Burke. -- Ob*nox"ious*ly, adv. -- Ob*nox"ious*ness, n. South.

To invest with ministerial or sacerdotal functions; to introduce into the office of the Christian ministry, by the laying on of hands, or other forms; to set apart by the ceremony of ordination. Meletius was ordained by Arian bishops. Bp. Stillingfleet.

e, and saltire are uniformly admitted as ordinaries. Some authorities include bar, bend sinister, pile, and others. See Subordinary. In ordinary. (a) In actual and constant service; statedly attending and serving; as, a physician or chaplain in ordinary. An ambassador in ordinary is one constantly resident at a foreign…

In India (from the Portuguese), any Christian minister; also, a priest of the native region. Kipling.

Hence, one who ministers to the evil designs and passions of another. Those wicked panders to avarice and ambition. Burke.

That circuit of ground committed to the charge of one parson or vicar, or other minister having cure of souls therein. Cowell.

Of or pertaining to passion or the passions; exciting, influenced by, or ministering to, the passions. -- n.

A guardian; a keeper; specifically (Eccl.), a minister having the charge of a church and parish.