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of the chief magistrates of towns in Holland. Grand pensionary, the title of the prime minister, or or president of the Council, of Holland when a republic.

To treat with physic or medicine; to administer medicine to, esp. a cathartic; to operate on as a cathartic; to purge.

Hence, figuratively, one who ministers to moral diseases; as, a physician of the soul.

ring full power; invested with full power; as, plenipotentiary license; plenipotentiary ministers. Howell.

rm a scheme of mischief against another, especially against a government or those who administer it; to conspire. Shak. The wicked plotteth against the just. Ps. xxxvii. 12.

To injure or kill by poison; to administer poison to. If you poison us, do we not die Shak.

The settled method by which the government and affairs of a nation are, or may be, administered; a system of public or official administration, as designed to promote the external or internal prosperity of a state.

d the Sublime Porte, from the gate (port) of the sultan's palace at which justice was administered.

Hence: The office and functions of a minister of state or member of the cabinet; as, to receive the portfolio of war; to resign the portfolio.

First; chief; principal; as, the premier place; premier minister. Camden. Swift.

A judicatory consisting of all the ministers within a certain district, and one layman, who is a ruling elder, from each parish or church, commissioned to represent the church in conjunction with the pastor. This body has a general jurisdiction over the churches under its care, and next below the provincial synod in au…

A presbyter elder; a minister; specifically:

First in rank, degree, dignity, authority, or importance; as, prime minister. "Prime virtues." Dryden.

ivy council (Eng. Law), the principal council of the sovereign, composed of the cabinet ministers and other persons chosen by the king or queen. Burrill. -- Privy councilor, a member of the privy council. -- Privy purse, moneys set apart for the personal use of the monarch; also, the title of the person having charge…

be his or her virtue and ability to bear the severities of the rule. (b) The trial of a ministerial candidate's qualifications prior to his ordination, or to his settlement as a pastor. (c) Moral trial; the state of man in the present life, in which he has the opportunity of proving his character, and becoming qualifie…

Freedom from any sinister or improper motives or views.

diagonal lines declining from the right top to the left base of the escutcheon (or from sinister chief to dexter base).

letters. Dryden died without a will, and his widow having renounced, his son Charles administered on June 10. W. D. Christie.

A diplomatic representative who resides at a foreign court; -- a term usualy applied to ministers of a rank inferrior to that of ambassadors. See the Note under Minister,4.

A person entitled to be revered; -- a title applied to priests or other ministers with the pronouns his or your; sometimes poetically to a father. Shak. Save your reverence, Saving your reverence, an apologetical phrase for an unseemly expression made in the presence of a priest or clergyman. -- Sir reverence, a contr…