Minister

  • 41Minister — 1. Die spanischen Minister nymphen in Sicilien, trinken in Neapel und schlemmen in Mailand. – Berckenmeyer. 2. Minister oder Küster. (S. ⇨ Alles 21, ⇨ Biegen 2 und ⇨ Bischof 2.) – Masson, 366. 3. Minister und betrunkene Recken muss man nicht aus… …

    Deutsches Sprichwörter-Lexikon

  • 42minister — Person acting as agent for another in performance of specified duties or orders. A person ordained according to the usages of some church or associated body of Christians for the preaching of the gospel and filling the pastoral office. In England …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 43minister — Person acting as agent for another in performance of specified duties or orders. A person ordained according to the usages of some church or associated body of Christians for the preaching of the gospel and filling the pastoral office. In England …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 44minister — I. noun Etymology: Middle English ministre, from Anglo French, from Latin minister servant; akin to Latin minor smaller Date: 14th century 1. agent 2. a. one officiating or assisting the officiant in church worship b. a clergyman especially of a… …

    New Collegiate Dictionary

  • 45Minister — This very interesting surname recorded as Minster and Minister, is early medieval English. It is either residential and describes a person who lived by a minster, as shown inthe first two recordings below, or possibly in a few cases, it may have… …

    Surnames reference

  • 46minister — min|is|ter1 [ mınıstər ] noun count *** 1. ) a priest in some Protestant churches 2. ) MAINLY BRITISH a member of government who is in charge of a government department: a meeting of trade ministers a ) an official who represents their government …

    Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • 47minister — [13] Etymologically, a minister is a person of ‘lower’ status, a ‘servant’. The word goes back via Old French ministre to Latin minister ‘servant, attendant’, which was derived from minus ‘less’. It retained this meaning when it arrived in… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 48minister — m IV, DB. ministertra, Ms. ministertrze; lm M. ministertrowie, DB. ministertrów «członek rządu kierujący określonym działem administracji państwowej» Minister spraw zagranicznych. Minister oświaty i wychowania. Być, zostać ministrem. Mianować… …

    Słownik języka polskiego

  • 49minister — 1 noun (C) 1 a politician who is a member of the government and is in charge of a government department, in Britain and some other countries (+ of/for): the Minister of Education see also: Prime Minister 2 a priest in some Christian churches see… …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 50minister — 1. noun 1) our minister visited me in the hospital Syn: clergyman, clergywoman, cleric, ecclesiastic, pastor, vicar, rector, priest, parson, deacon, father, man/woman of the cloth, man/woman of God, churchman, churchwoman; curate …

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