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Webster 1913 Edition
Ministerial
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.
Webster 1828 Edition
Ministerial
MINISTE'RIAL
,Adj.
Enlight'ning spirits and ministerial flames.
1.
Acting under superior authority; pertaining to a minister. For the ministerial offices in court, there must be an eye to them.
2.
Pertaining to executive offices, as distinct from judicial. The office and acts of a sheriff are ministerial.3.
Sacerdotal; pertaining to ministers of the gospel; as ministerial garments; ministerial duties. Genuine ministerial prudence keeps back no important truth, listens to no compromise with sin, connives at no fashionable vice, cringes before no lordly worldling.
4.
Pertaining to ministers of state; as ministerial circles; ministerial benches.