ministrant
Americanadjective
noun
adjective
noun
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Etymology
Origin of ministrant
1660–70; < Latin ministrant- (stem of ministrāns ), present participle of ministrāre to serve. See minister, -ant
Example Sentences
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“Here is to your health, ministrant spirit!” he said.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
"So worked Mind: its tribe433 Of senses ministrant above, below, Far, near, or now or haply long ago Brought to pass knowledge."
From Browning's England A Study in English Influences in Browning by Clarke, Helen Archibald
For Ir�n� did not rise with the other Demetrians, and Lydia, feeling that she had been chosen as ministrant for a purpose, remained beside Ir�n�.
From The Woman Who Vowed The Demetrian by Harding, Ellison
Brodrick's suffering was Gertrude's opportunity, the open, consecrated door where she entered soft-footed, angelic, with a barely perceptible motion of her ministrant wings.
From The Creators A Comedy by Sinclair, May
In the upper part of the picture, facing in every case but one towards the ministrant, is a bird figure, different on each page, and having in two cases a human head.
From Commentary Upon the Maya-Tzental Perez Codex with a Concluding Note Upon the Linguistic Problem of the Maya Glyphs by Gates, William
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