1. one who is authorized to perform religious functions in a christian church, especially a protestant church.
2. roman catholic church the superior in certain orders.
3. A high officer of state appointed to head an executive or administrative department of government.
4. an authorized diplomatic representative of a government, usually ranking next below an ambassador.
5. A person serving as an agent for another by carrying out specified orders or functions.
6. to attend to the wants and needs of others: volunteers ministered to the homeless after the flood. see synonyms at tend2.
7. to perform the functions of a cleric.
8. to administer or dispense (a sacrament, for example).

1. A person who is trained to perform religious ceremonies at a protestant church.
2. A politician who heads a ministry (national or regional government department for public service).
3. at a diplomacy, the rank of diplomat directly below ambassador
4. someone who serves others.
5. to attend to; to tend.
6. (archaic) to afford, to give, to supply.

1. A servant; a subordinate; an officer or assistant of inferior rank; hence, an agent, an instrument.
2. an officer of justice.
3. one to whom the sovereign or executive head of a government intrusts the management of affairs of state, or some department of such affairs.
4. A representative of a government, sent to the court, or seat of government, of a foreign nation to transact diplomatic business.
5. one who serves at the altar; one who performs sacerdotal duties; the pastor of a church duly authorized or licensed to preach the gospel and administer the sacraments.
6. to act as a servant, attendant, or agent; to attend and serve; to perform service in any office, sacred or secular.
7. to supply or to things needful; esp., to supply consolation or remedies.
8. to furnish or apply; to afford; to supply; to administer.

1. to furnish, supply, or afford; give; serve: as, to minister consolation.
2. to perform; render.
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4. to act as a minister or attendant; perform service of any kind.
5. to afford supplies; give things needful; furnish means of relief or remedy.
6. to contribute; be of service.
7. to serve.
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9. one who performs service for another, or executes another's will; one who is subservient; an agent, servant, or attendant.
10. one who acts as a medium or dispenser; an administrator or promoter: as, a minister of god's will, of justice, etc.; a minister of peace or charity.
11. in politics: one of the persons appointed by the sovereign or chief magistrate of a country as the responsible heads of the different departments of the government; a minister of state: as, the minister of foreign affairs, of the interior, of finance, of war. of justice, etc.
12. A diplomatic representative of a country abroad; a person accredited by the executive authority of one country to that of another as its agent for communication and the transaction of business between the two governments; specifically, the political representative of a state in another state, in contradistinction to an ambassador, who holds a nominally higher rank as in general the personal representative of the sovereign or chief of the state at the court of another sovereign.
13. eccles., in the new testament, a servant of god, god's word, christ, or the church; an officer of the church; an attendant or assistant (acts xiii. 5): translating
14. an officer of justice.
15. the catfish, Amiurus nebulosus: apparently so called from the silvery white throat, contrasting with the dark back, and likened to a clergyman's white necktie.

1. attend to the wants and needs of others
2. the job of a head of a government department
3. work as a minister
4. a person authorized to conduct religious worship
5. a person appointed to a high office in the government
6. a diplomat representing one government to another; ranks below ambassador