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ministerial /mɪnɪˈstɪərɪəl /adjective1Relating to a government minister or ministers: a back-bencher who had never held ministerial office...- He has an abundance of political experience, including senior ministerial office, and will relish the challenge of heading the new beefed-up Transport Department.
- After 15 days, an agreement was reached through which the Lefts and the Greens were excluded from ministerial office, but would keep the government in power.
- But in light of his political biography there can be no doubt of his preparedness to assume a ministerial office in a Union-led government.
2Relating to a minister of religion: the basic ministerial stipend...- It is this kind of ecclesiology that will lead to a ministerial leadership and ecclesial structures that will equip believers for their callings.
- In short, the presbyteral priesthood was at the center of the sacramental understanding of ministerial order.
- YTM provides theological, spiritual, and ministerial formation both to high-school students and to their teachers and ministers.
3 Law Relating to or entrusted with the execution of the law or the commands of a superior.That, however, was where the suggested alternative remedy was a ministerial default power rather than a statutory appeal process....- The convention of ministerial responsibility is not enforced by the judiciary.
- However, Gecas can seek a judicial review of the ministerial decision.
Derivatives ministerially adverb ...- Creationists have nothing against science being used ministerially, i.e. to build on the framework provided by the propositional teachings of Scripture, e.g. to build models to help elucidate Scripture.
- In that respect, I am disappointed in Parliament, but we will no doubt get another chance to debate it, and it is as it should be that Parliament, ultimately, decides these things, not a bunch of ministerially appointed experts.
- You cannot separate what you are from what you do; you cannot separate the effect of truth upon your own relationship to God personally from the effect of truth through you ministerially.
Origin Mid 16th century: from French ministériel or late Latin ministerialis, from Latin ministerium 'ministry'. Rhymes arterial, bacterial, cereal, criterial, ethereal, ferial, funereal, immaterial, imperial, magisterial, managerial, material, presbyterial, serial, sidereal, venereal, biomaterial |