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ey . . . never think it to be a part of religion to rush into the office of princes and ministers. Sprat.

To administer the sacraments. [R.] Both to preach and sacramentize. Fuller.

To make sorrowful; to sadden. [Obs.] How it sadded the minister's spirits! H. Peters.

blazoning of a shield divided by two lines drawn in the direction of a bend and a bend sinister, and crossing at the center.

ass scandalized, and the lower orders, some laughing, others backing the soldier or the minister, as their fancy dictated. Sir W. Scott.

A band in the same position as the bend sinister, but only half as broad as the latter.

r commander of land forces in the Turkish empire; especially, the commander-in-chief of minister of war.

To be subordinate to; to act a secondary part under; to appear as the inferior of; to minister to. Bodies bright and greater should not serve The less not bright. Milton.

ordain or install as pastor or rector of a church, society, or parish; as, to settle a minister. [U. S.]

To hear or receive the confession of; to administer confession and absolution to; -- said of a priest as the agent. That they should shrive their parishioners. Piers Plowman. Doubtless he shrives this woman, . . . Else ne'er could he so long protract his speech. Shak. Till my guilty soul be shriven. Longfellow.…

ge in its interest, in opposition to another party; to take sides; as, to side with the ministerial party. All side in parties, and begin the attack. Pope.

ege of instruction, or the like, especially from the act of preaching; as, to silence a minister of the gospel. The Rev. Thomas Hooker of Chelmsford, in Essex, was silenced for nonconformity. B. Trumbull.

To smack. [Obs.] Banister (1578).

r township which the mill stands. [Eng.] Soc and sac (O. Eng. Law), the full right of administering justice in a manor or lordship.

perform with solemn or ritual ceremonies, or according to legal forms. Baptism to be administered in one place, and marriage solemnized in another. Hooker.

the regulation of the lives and actions of men. South. Sovereign state, a state which administers its own government, and is not dependent upon, or subject to, another power.

Stuck; spoiled in making. [Scot.] Stickit minister, a candidate for the clerical office who fails, disqualified by incompetency or immorality.

To supply; to afford; to subminister. [Obs.] Harvey.

The act of subministering. [Obs.] Sir H. Wotton.

ech mercy and succor." Chaucer. My noble father . . . Flying for succor to his servant Bannister. Shak.