Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Attending and serving as a subordinate agent; serving under superior authority; performing personal services; tending.
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- verb Present participle of
minister .
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Examples
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The current debate can spark interest in ministering both with and to local immigrant communities.
Immigration and emigration in the context of the Great Commission 2006
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And she went abroad and by day and night forgot her own grief in ministering to those who had fallen.
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We greet him today as Canadians, and feel proud that we had any share in ministering to the relief of his suffering fellow-countrymen.
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But his wife's assiduity in ministering to the hero of this amorous adventure became more and more distasteful to him.
Indiana 1900
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The feet of the priests were bare in ministering in the sanctuary.
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"Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached throughout the whole world, this also that she hath done," in ministering to the Lord of her substance on His Galilean tour, "shall be spoken of as a memorial of her" (Mr 14: 9). many others -- that is, many other healed women.
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And it was hardly that, so completely had the child forgotten her own sorrow in ministering to that of another.
Queechy 1854
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Now let him on whom this care of ministering is devolved attend to it with faithfulness and diligence; particularly, [1.]
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721
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Our State educational system, miserably defective though it is in this regard, is based upon the idea of ministering to the special gifts of its pupils -- of trying by scholarships, by Care
Progress and History Francis Sydney Marvin 1903
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In lines of a certain beauty, though somewhat difficult in their grammatical construction, she has been described as a ministering angel when pain and anguish wring the brow; and it was in her capacity of ministering angel that she now placed herself at the Church movement and advanced upon the world.
Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) Lucia Gilbert [Commentator] Calhoun 1860
GHibbs commented on the word ministering
My adjectival use: 'The Bible says that the Holy Spirit is a ministering spirit.'
August 23, 2011