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形容詞

ministering (not comparable)

1. Of one who, or something that, administers.
   • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 126:

     Hitherto all that I had acquired had been unsatisfactory—the reward was too distant; but Carrara's mystic eloquence brought the result of our midnight vigils visibly before me; and when I left him, it was to dream of the glorious secrets which, once penetrated, would lay all nature open to our eyes, and leave all its ministering spirits bowed to our rule by spell and sign.

名詞

ministering (plural ministerings)

1. The act of one who ministers; ministration.
   • 1896, Andrew Lang, A Monk of Fife:

     I could not be in your daughter's company, and have the grace of her gentle ministerings.

派生語

アナグラム

• terminising