Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An obsolete form of ministry.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun See ministry.

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  • noun Archaic form of ministry.

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Examples

  • "For the servants of God who came over into New England ... seeing their ministery was a most precious sweete savour to all the saints before she came hither, it is easie to discerne from what sinke that ill vapour hath risen which hath made so many of her seduced party to loath now the smell of those flowers which they were wont to find sweetnesse in.

    The Emancipation of Massachusetts Brooks Adams 1887

  • Currently, is it Leiberman? an Israeli foreign ministery representative is in the US telling Obama to stop speaking in support of the Egyptian demonstrators.

    Mubarak's defiance could spell disaster 2011

  • The yield on its 10-year bonds is 3.22% today, versus 1.93% for German Bunds Reuters data.4.20pm: Austerity is getting serious in France -- the finance ministery has cancelled the Christmas petits fours!

    Eurozone crisis live: Merkel offers UK olive branch as euro slides again - 14 December 2011 2011

  • Only 19 years and 91/2 months left to become as acquainted as Obama with Black Theology and the ministery of Wright.

    McCain camp accuses Obama of making age an issue 2008

  • I'm willing to bet there is not one of those "top bureaucrats", regardless of ministery, who doesn't have at least one priority file with the words 2010 Olympics in it distracting them from the job British Columbians are actually paying them to do.

    British Columbia's ticking time bomb Dave 2009

  • I'm willing to bet there is not one of those "top bureaucrats", regardless of ministery, who doesn't have at least one priority file with the words 2010 Olympics in it distracting them from the job British Columbians are actually paying them to do.

    Archive 2009-05-01 Alison 2009

  • Other countries bounce their best and brightest around in a broad variety of jobs and ministery post to gain relevent overall perspective and the top performers get general policy leadership slots.

    Should McCain be asked how his experience in Vietnam qualifies him to be President? Ann Althouse 2008

  • It's not enough to be a learned ministery, we need to be a learning ministry.

    Some Recommendations that Caught My Eye Christine Robinson 2008

  • It's not enough to be a learned ministery, we need to be a learning ministry.

    Archive 2008-12-01 Christine Robinson 2008

  • I shouldn't perhaps of cited my sister-in-law with such facetiousness, but she is someone who was always a rampant femnist - her perogative yes, who then became one of the first women vicars in the UK who after a few years of ministery, when she then had a family and male au pair said she was taking up teaching alongside some cathedral duties because working the weekends was becoming too difficult for her.

    An extraordinary day... Joanna Bogle 2008

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