Word Meanings - UNDERMINISTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To serve, or minister to, in a subordinate relation. Wyclif.

Related words: (words related to UNDERMINISTER)

• RELATIONSHIP
  The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance. Mason.
• SERVER
  1. One who serves. 2. A tray for dishes; a salver. Randolph.
• MINISTERY
  See MILTON
• SUBORDINATE
  1. Placed in a lower order, class, or rank; holding a lower or inferior position. The several kinds and subordinate species of each are easily distinguished. Woodward. 2. Inferior in order, nature, dignity, power, importance, or the like. It was
• MINISTERIALLY
  In a ministerial manner; in the character or capacity of a minister.
• RELATIONAL
  1. Having relation or kindred; related. We might be tempted to take these two nations for relational stems. Tooke. 2. Indicating or specifying some relation. Relational words, as prepositions, auxiliaries, etc. R. Morris.
• WYCLIFITE; WYCLIFFITE
  A follower of Wyclif, the English reformer; a Lollard.
• SERVE
  a servant or slave, servare to protect, preserve, observe; cf. Zend har to protect, haurva protecting. Cf. Conserve, Desert merit, 1. To work for; to labor in behalf of; to exert one's self continuously or statedly for the benefit of; to do service
• RELATION
  1. The act of relating or telling; also, that which is related; recital; account; narration; narrative; as, the relation of historical events. relation doth well figure them. Bacon. 2. The state of being related or of referring; what is apprehended
• MINISTERIALIST
  A supporter of the ministers, or the party in power.
• MINISTER
  1. To act as a servant, attendant, or agent; to attend and serve; to perform service in any office, sacred or secular. The Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister. Matt. xx. 28. 2. To supply or to things needful; esp., to supply
• RELATIONIST
  A relative; a relation.
• MINISTERIAL
  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."
• DISSERVE
  To fail to serve; to do injury or mischief to; to damage; to hurt; to harm. Have neither served nor disserved the interests of any party. Jer. Taylor. (more info) Etym:
• RESERVE
  1. To keep back; to retain; not to deliver, make over, or disclose. "I have reserved to myself nothing." Shak. 2. Hence, to keep in store for future or special use; to withhold from present use for another purpose or time; to keep; to retain. Gen.
• DESERVEDNESS
  Meritoriousness.
• MISRELATION
  Erroneous relation or narration. Abp. Bramhall.
• INSUBORDINATE
  Not submitting to authority; disobedient; rebellious; mutinous
• MISOBSERVE
  To observe inaccurately; to mistake in observing. Locke.
• INSERVE
  To be of use to an end; to serve.
• DESERVE
  1. To earn by service; to be worthy of (something due, either good or evil); to merit; to be entitled to; as, the laborer deserves his wages; a work of value deserves praise. God exacteth of thee less than thine iniquity deserveth. Job xi. 6. John
• UNDESERVER
  One of no merit; one who is nor deserving or worthy. Shak.
• IRRELATION
  The quality or state of being irrelative; want of connection or relation.
• DESERVEDLY
  According to desert ; justly.
• MISOBSERVER
  One who misobserves; one who fails to observe properly.
• UNDERMINISTER
  To serve, or minister to, in a subordinate relation. Wyclif.
• UNDESERVE
  To fail to deserve. Milton.
• ADMINISTER
  To settle, as the estate of one who dies without a will, or whose will fails of an executor. Syn. -- To manage; conduct; minister; supply; dispense; give out; distribute; furnish. (more info) 1. To manage or conduct, as public affairs; to direct