Ministering
adj, noun, verb ·3 syllables ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 The act of one who ministers; ministration.
"I could not be in your daughter's company, and have the grace of her gentle ministerings."
- 1 present participle and gerund of minister form-of, gerund, participle, present
- 1 Of one who, or something that, administers. not-comparable
"Hitherto all that I had acquired had been unsatisfactory—the reward was too distant; but Carrara's mystic eloquence brought the result of our midnight vigils visibly before me; and when I left him, it was to dream of the glorious secrets which, once penetrated, would lay all nature open to our eyes, and leave all its ministering spirits bowed to our rule by spell and sign."
Example
More examples"There, ministering justice, she presides, / and deals the law, and from her throne of state, / as choice determines or as chance decides, / to each, in equal share, his separate task divides. / Sudden, behold a concourse. Looking down, / his late-lost friends AEneas sees again, / Segestus, brave Cloanthus of renown, / Antheus and others of the Trojan train, / whom the black squall had scattered o'er the main, / and driven afar upon an alien strand."
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