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Word Meanings - MINISTERIAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Of or pertaining to ministry or service; serving; attendant. Enlightening spirits and ministerial flames. Prior. 2. Of or pertaining to the office of a minister or to the ministry as a body, whether civil or sacerdotal. "Ministerial offices."

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1. Of or pertaining to ministry or service; serving; attendant. Enlightening spirits and ministerial flames. Prior. 2. Of or pertaining to the office of a minister or to the ministry as a body, whether civil or sacerdotal. "Ministerial offices." Bacon. "A ministerial measure." Junius. "Ministerial garments." Hooker. 3. Tending to advance or promote; contributive. "Ministerial to intellectual culture." De Quincey. The ministerial benches, the benches in the House of Commons occupied by members of the cabinet and their supporters; -- also, the persons occupying them. "Very solid and very brilliant talents distinguish the ministerial benches." Burke. Syn. -- Official; priestly; sacerdotal; ecclesiastical.

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  • IMPOSABLE
    Capable of being imposed or laid on. Hammond.
  • OFFICIALISM
    The state of being official; a system of official government; also, adherence to office routine; red-tapism. Officialism may often drift into blunders. Smiles.
  • IMPOSINGNESS
    The quality of being imposing.
  • IMPOSTRESS; IMPOSTRIX
    A woman who imposes upon or deceives others. Fuller.
  • IMPOSTURAGE
    Imposture; cheating. Jer. Taylor.
  • IMPOSTOR
    One who imposes upon others; a person who assumes a character or title not his own, for the purpose of deception; a pretender. "The fraudulent impostor foul." Milton. Syn. -- Deceiver; cheat; rogue. See Deceiver.
  • SCENIC; SCENICAL
    Of or pertaining to scenery; of the nature of scenery; theatrical. All these situations communicate a scenical animation to the wild romance, if treated dramatically. De Quincey.
  • IMPOSTHUMATION
    1. The act of forming an abscess; state of being inflamed; suppuration. 2. An abscess; an imposthume. Coxe.
  • OFFICIALTY
    The charge, office, court, or jurisdiction of an official. Ayliffe.
  • POMPOUS
    1. Displaying pomp; stately; showy with grandeur; magnificent; as, a pompous procession. 2. Ostentatious; pretentious; boastful; vainlorious; as, pompous manners; a pompous style. "Pompous in high presumption." Chaucer. he pompous vanity of the
  • IMPOSING
    1. Laying as a duty; enjoining. 2. Adapted to impress forcibly; impressive; commanding; as, an imposing air; an imposing spectacle. "Large and imposing edifices." Bp. Hobart. 3. Deceiving; deluding; misleading.
  • SUMPTUOUS
    Involving large outlay or expense; costly; expensive; hence, luxurious; splendid; magnificient; as, a sumptuous house or table; sumptuous apparel. We are too magnificient and sumptuous in our tables and attendance. Atterbury. She spoke, and turned
  • IMPOSTURY
    Imposture. Fuller.
  • IMPOSE
    To lay on, as the hands, in the religious rites of confirmation and ordination. (more info) Etym: 1. To lay on; to set or place; to put; to deposit. Cakes of salt and barley did impose Within a wicker basket. Chapman. 2. To lay as a
  • IMPOSINGLY
    In an imposing manner.
  • MINISTERIALLY
    In a ministerial manner; in the character or capacity of a minister.
  • IMPOSTROUS
    Characterized by imposture; deceitful. "Impostrous pretense of knowledge." Grote.
  • IMPOSTHUME
    A collection of pus or purulent matter in any part of an animal body; an abscess.
  • CEREMONIALLY
    According to rites and ceremonies; as, a person ceremonially unclean.
  • IMPOST
    The top member of a pillar, pier, wall, etc., upon which the weight of an arch rests. Note: The impost is called continuous, if the moldings of the arch or architrave run down the jamb or pier without a break. Syn. -- Tribute; excise; custom; duty;
  • INOFFICIALLY
    Without the usual forms, or not in the official character.
  • PRESUMPTUOUSNESS
    The quality or state of being presumptuous.
  • SELF-IMPOSTURE
    Imposture practiced on one's self; self-deceit. South.
  • SUPERIMPOSE
    To lay or impose on something else; as, a stratum of earth superimposed on another stratum. -- Su`per*im`po*si"tion, n.

 

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