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

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.

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.

ne 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.

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

form 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.

led 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: