ministerium
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of ministerium
From Latin, dating back to 1855–60; see origin at ministry
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The Swedish ministers met with the Germans in the earlier meetings of the ministerium.
From The Organization of the Congregation in the Early Lutheran Churches in America by Beale M. Schmucker
In its other senses Fr. métier represents Lat. ministerium, service.
From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Ernest Weekley
The honourable ministerium from all the three states.
From Sidonia, the Sorceress : the Supposed Destroyer of the Whole Reigning Ducal House of Pomerania — Volume 2 by Wilhelm Meinhold
Spener himself indeed preferred the Calvinistic presbyterial constitution, because only in it could equality be given to all the three orders, ministerium ecclesiasticum, magistratus politicus, status œconomicus.
From Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 by J. H. Kurtz
There is a wider gap, and one implying greater boorishness, between ministerium and métier, or sapiens and sachant, than between druv and drove or agin and against, which last is plainly an arrant superlative.
From The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell by James Russell Lowell
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