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Ministerial
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What's The Definition Of Ministerial?
[adj] of or relating to a government minister or ministry; "ministerial decree"
[adj] of or relating to a minister of religion or the minister's office; "ministerial duties" Synonyms | Synonyms for Ministerial: Related Terms | Find terms related to Ministerial: abbatial | abbatical | accessory | adjuvant | administrating | administrative | agential | agentival | agentive | ambassadorial | ancillary | archiepiscopal | assistant | assisting | auxiliary | bureaucratic | canonical | capitular | capitulary | churchly | clerical | conducive | consular | diplomatic | directing | ecclesiastic | employable | episcopal | episcopalian | evangelistic | executive | facilitating | favoring | forwarding | fostering | handy | helpful | helping | instrumental | intermediary | managing | mediating | mediatorial | ministering | ministrant | nurtural | nutricial | official | officiating | pastoral | plenipotentiary | prelatial | prelatic | presiding | priestish | priestly | priest-ridden | promoting | rabbinic | sacerdotal | serviceable | serving | subservient | subsidiary | supervisory | ultramontane | useful See Also | Ministerial In Webster's Dictionary \Min`is*te"ri*al\, a. [L. ministerialis: cf. F.
minist['e]riel. See {Minister}, and cf. {Minstrel}.]
1. Of or pertaining to ministry or service; serving;
attendant.
Enlightening spirits and ministerial flames.
--Prior.
2. Of or pertaining to the office of a minister or to the
ministry as a body, whether civil or sacerdotal.
``Ministerial offices.'' --Bacon. ``A ministerial
measure.'' --Junius. ``Ministerial garments.'' --Hooker.
3. Tending to advance or promote; contributive. ``Ministerial
to intellectual culture.'' --De Quincey.
{The ministerial benches}, the benches in the House of
Commons occupied by members of the cabinet and their
supporters; -- also, the persons occupying them. ``Very
solid and very brilliant talents distinguish the
ministerial benches.'' --Burke.
Syn: Official; priestly; sacerdotal; ecclesiastical.
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