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ministrant

American  
[min-uh-struhnt] / ˈmɪn ə strənt /

adjective

  1. ministering.


noun

  1. a person who ministers.

ministrant British  
/ ˈmɪnɪstrənt /

adjective

  1. ministering or serving as a minister

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. a person who ministers

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Etymology

Origin of ministrant

1660–70; < Latin ministrant- (stem of ministrāns ), present participle of ministrāre to serve. See minister, -ant

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“Here is to your health, ministrant spirit!” he said.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

How will the Gods and saints partake The offerings that the prince would make, And he a vile and outcast thing, His ministrant one born a king?

From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)

The chiefs ministrant bore His person, and enacted before the eyes of the observant people the work of Christ’s Incarnation and Redemption, presenting it to God the Father.

From Church and State as Seen in the Formation of Christendom by Allies, T. W. (Thomas William)

Now shall I live a ministrant of gods and slave to Cybebe?

From The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

The spirit of Chaos, from her uncharted tracts, summons her ministrant powers of Death and Change.

From The Masque of the Elements by Scheffauer, Herman George

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