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▪ I. ministering, vbl. n.|ˈmɪnɪstərɪŋ|
[f. minister v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb minister; ministration, administration.
c1380Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 437 Prests shulden have betere ordre in minstryng of sacraments. 1530Palsgr. 583/1, I heale one by mynystrynge of medycines to hym, je medicine. 1611Bible Rom. xii. 7 Or ministery, let vs wait, on our ministring. 1824Lamb Elia Ser. ii. Capt. Jackson, The anxious ministerings about you. 1901Macm. Mag. Apr. 412/2 The Church of Ireland clergy as a rule do a deal of ministering to the Roman Catholic sick and poor.
attrib.1535Coverdale 1 Chron. x. 28 Some of them had the ouersight of the mynistrynge vessell. 1566(title) A briefe discourse against the outwarde apparrell and ministring garments of the Popishe church.
▪ II. ministering, ppl. a.|ˈmɪnɪstərɪŋ|
[f. minister v. + -ing2.]
That ministers or serves; serving as a subordinate agent; performing helpful services; administering, officiating; esp. in phr. ministering angel: spec. a kind-hearted person, usu. a woman, who helps and comforts people in distress; freq. a nurse.
1535Coverdale Heb. i. 14 Are they [sc. Angels] not all mynistrynge spretes? 1602Shakes. Ham. v. i. 263 A Ministring Angell shall my Sister be. 1654Jer. Taylor Real Pres. 71 The Greek Church universally taught that the Consecration was made by the prayers of the ministring man. 1764Foote Mayor of G. i. Wks. 1799 I. 162 Is it your Worship's will that I lend a ministring hand to the maim'd? 1808Scott Marm. vi. 30 O Woman!.. When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou! 1886A. Weir Hist. Basis Mod. Eur. (1889) 27 Though despotic, [both monarchs] were conscious of the ministering nature of their office. 1912‘Saki’ Chron. Clovis 223 Martin Stoner rose heavily to his feet and followed his ministering angel along a passage..into a large room lit with a cheerfully blazing fire. 1922Joyce Ulysses 349 A sterling good daughter was Gerty just like a second mother in the house, a ministering angel too with a little heart worth its weight in gold. 1924A. Huxley Little Mexican 140 Emmy was good, was kind, a ministering angel. 1931M. D. George England in Transition iv. 92 Nurses paid by the parish—creatures compared with whom Mrs. Gamp would have been almost a ministering angel. 1956F. F. Darling Pelican in Wilderness i. 10 Such detached thought as I could muster was of feeling sorry for the air hostess. She remained throughout the gentle ministering angel, imperturbable as she picked her way through the shambles. 1974W. Foley Child in Forest ii. 188 She came in her nurse's uniform, and I thought ‘ministering angel’ a very apt description. |
