释义 |
ministership|ˈmɪnɪstəʃɪp| [f. minister n. + -ship.] The office of a minister; the position or fact of being a minister.
1565Jewel Def. Apol. (1611) 412 How vainely you snap..now at our Superintendentships: now at our Ministerships. 1742H. Walpole Lett. to Mann 3 Mar. (1857) I. 137 Think of his talking of making it dangerous for anyone else to accept the first ministership! 1863Daily Tel. 8 Oct., We are obliged to write of Sir James Hudson's Ministership as a thing of the past. 1872Daily News 1 Oct. 5, I am not a footman, and the ministership you would give me under a régime such as this would be a menial office. |