Word Meanings - MINISTERIALLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In a ministerial manner; in the character or capacity of a minister.

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• CHARACTERISTIC
  Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay.
• CHARACTER
  1. A distinctive mark; a letter, figure, or symbol. It were much to be wished that there were throughout the world but one sort of character for each letter to express it to the eye. Holder. 2. Style of writing or printing; handwriting;
• CHARACTERISM
  A distinction of character; a characteristic. Bp. Hall.
• MINISTERY
  See MILTON
• MANNERIST
  One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
• MANNERISM
  Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural
• MINISTERIALLY
  In a ministerial manner; in the character or capacity of a minister.
• MINISTER
  orig. a double comparative from the root of minor less, and hence meaning, an inferior, a servant. See 1st Minor, and cf. Master, 1. A servant; a subordinate; an officer or assistant of inferior rank; hence, an agent, an instrument. Moses rose
• CHARACTERIZE
  1. To make distinct and recognizable by peculiar marks or traits; to make with distinctive features. European, Asiatic, Chinese, African, and Grecian faces are Characterized. Arbuthot. 2. To engrave or imprint. Sir M. Hale. 3. To indicate the
• CHARACTERISTICALLY
  In a characteristic manner; in a way that characterizes.
• CAPACITY
  Legal or noral qualification, as of age, residence, character, etc., necessary for certain purposes, as for holding office, for marrying, for making contracts, will, etc.; legal power or right; competency. Capacity for heat, the power of absorbing
• CHARACTERIZATION
  The act or process of characterizing.
• MANNERLINESS
  The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance. Sir M. Hale.
• CHARACTERISTICAL
  Characteristic.
• MINISTERIALIST
  A supporter of the ministers, or the party in power.
• CHARACTERY
  1. The art or means of characterizing; a system of signs or characters; symbolism; distinctive mark. Fairies use flowers for their charactery. Shak. 2. That which is charactered; the meaning. I will construe to thee All the charactery of my sad
• MANNERED
  1. Having a certain way, esp a. polite way, of carrying and conducting one's self. Give her princely training, that she may be Mannered as she is born. Shak. 2. Affected with mannerism; marked by excess of some characteristic peculiarity. His style
• MANNER
  manual, skillful, handy, fr. LL. manarius, for L. manuarius 1. Mode of action; way of performing or effecting anything; method; style; form; fashion. The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner
• CHARACTERLESS
  Destitute of any distinguishing quality; without character or force.
• MANNERCHOR
  A German men's chorus or singing club.
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• MISCHARACTERIZE
  To characterize falsely or erroneously; to give a wrong character to. They totally mischaracterize the action. Eton.
• UNDERMINISTER
  To serve, or minister to, in a subordinate relation. Wyclif.
• MENDELIAN CHARACTER
  A character which obeys Mendel's law in regard to its hereditary transmission.
• 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
• OVERMANNER
  In an excessive manner; excessively. Wiclif.
• ADMINISTERIAL
  Pertaining to administration, or to the executive part of government.
• ILL-MANNERED
  Impolite; rude.
• SUBMINISTER
  To supply; to afford. Sir M. Hale.
• INCAPACITY
  Want of legal ability or competency to do, give, transmit, or receive something; inability; disqualification; as, the inacapacity of minors to make binding contracts, etc. Syn. -- Inability; incapability; incompetency; unfitness; disqualification;
• WELL-MANNERED
  Polite; well-bred; complaisant; courteous. Dryden.