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Webster 1913 Edition
Ministry
Min′is-try
,Noun.
pl. Ministries
(#)
. 1.
The act of ministering; ministration; service.
“With tender ministry.” Thomson.
2.
Hence:
Agency; instrumentality.
The ordinary
ministry
of second causes. Atterbury.
The wicked
ministry
of arms. Dryden.
3.
The office, duties, or functions of a minister, servant, or agent; ecclesiastical, executive, or ambassadorial function or profession.
4.
The body of ministers of state; also, the clergy, as a body.
5.
Administration; rule; term in power;
as, the
. ministry
of PittWebster 1828 Edition
Ministry
MIN'ISTRY
,Noun.
1.
Agency; service; aid; interposition; instrumentality. He directs the affairs of this world by the ordinary ministry of second causes.
2.
Ecclesiastical function; agency or service of a minister of the gospel or clergyman in the modern church, or of priests, apostles and evangelists in the ancient. Acts 1. Rom.12. 2 Tim.4. Num.4.3.
Time of ministration; duration of the office of a minister, civil or ecclesiastical. The war with France was during the ministry of Pitt.
4.
Persons who compose the executive government or the council of a supreme magistrate; the body of ministers of state.5.
Business; employment. He abhorred the wicked ministry of arms.
Definition 2024
ministry
ministry
English
Noun
ministry (plural ministries)
- Government department, at the administrative level normally headed by a minister (or equivalent rank, e.g. secretary of state), who holds it as portfolio, especially in a constitutional monarchy, but also as a polity
- She works for the ministry of finance.
- The complete body of government ministers (whether or not they are in cabinet) under the leadership of a head of government (such as a prime minister)
- The premier offered his last ministry's resignation to the monarch, and is asked to form a new one in accordance with the election results.
- A ministration
- The active practice and education of the minister of a particular religion or faith.
- (Christianity) The clergy of nonapostolic Protestant churches.
- (Christianity) Work of a spiritual or charitable nature.
- the present ministry of the Holy Spirit
Translations
government department
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complete body of government ministers
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ministration — see ministration
practice and education of the minister of a particular religion