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ministrational en · ADJ

Etymology

From ministration + -al.

Meanings

  1. (nonstandard, not-comparable, rare) Of or relating to ministration.
    • Tea Ministratonial Governments in the Song Dynasty 1997, “Main Contents”, in 中國社会经济史研究, Xiamen: 厦门大学中国社会经济史研究编辑部, →ISSN, →OCLC:
    • Surplice, sur′plıs. s. a clergyman’s white ministrational garment. 1815, Burgiss Allison, The American Standard of Orthography and Pronunciation, and Improved Dictionary of the English Language, […], Burlington, N.J.: […] John S[ilva] Meehan, [f]or D[avid] Allinson, […] I[saac] Pierce,^([sic – meaning Peirce]) J[ohn] W. Shryock, […], →OCLC, signature 2H[, 2], verso, column 2:
    • "[…] It is my sworn duty to protect the King and the bloody Queen at all cost." He explains. Hearing this; King Lire frantically shouts. "BLOODY!? […] You mean to tell me the bitch is on her period again!?" […] "No Yo' Majesty. I assure you, that that is not the issue.." […] with a smile and a wink at the Queen. "Issue!?" Baffled, the King wonders. "Excuse me dude. But; Issue! Isn't that one of those ministrational things too?" 2020 June 24, William I Gladden, “The Invasion”, in King Lire: The Liar […], [United States]: Royalty Publishing USA, →ISBN, page 34:
    • What Latter-day Saint will find the interpretive-ministrational key and gift to liberate these captives for God’s kingdom? 1987, Scott Abbott, Steven Epperson, “House of the Temple, House of the Lord: A View from Philadelphia”, in Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, volume 20, Stanford, Calif.: Dialogue Foundation, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 140:
    • The Jew, the Gentile, and the Church present the three types of those several relations of the world to religion, and whose spiritual interests may be gratuitously obstructed by ministrational offensiveness. [1885–1905], Joseph S[amuel] Exell, chapter X, in The Biblical Illustrator: […] I. Corinthians., volume II, London: James Nisbet & Co., […], →OCLC, page 68:

Relateds

administrational

Synonyms

ministrative