MPage 167
- English Word Ministerialist Definition A supporter of the ministers, or the party in power.
- English Word Ministerially Definition In a ministerial manner; in the character or capacity of a minister.
- English Word Ministering Definition of Minister
- English Word Ministery Definition See Ministry.
- English Word Ministracy Definition Ministration.
- English Word Ministral Definition Ministerial.
- English Word Ministrant Definition Performing service as a minister; attendant on service; acting under command; subordinate.
- English Word Ministrant Definition One who ministers.
- English Word Ministration Definition The act of ministering; service; ministry.
- English Word Ministrative Definition Serving to aid; ministering.
- English Word Ministress Definition A woman who ministers.
- English Word Ministry Definition The act of ministering; ministration; service.
- English Word Ministry Definition Agency; instrumentality.
- English Word Ministry Definition The office, duties, or functions of a minister, servant, or agent; ecclesiastical, executive, or ambassadorial function or profession.
- English Word Ministry Definition The body of ministers of state; also, the clergy, as a body.
- English Word Ministry Definition Administration; rule; term in power; as, the ministry of Pitt.
- English Word Ministryship Definition The office of a minister.
- English Word Minium Definition A heavy, brilliant red pigment, consisting of an oxide of lead, Pb3O4, obtained by exposing lead or massicot to a gentle and continued heat in the air. It is used as a cement, as a paint, and in the manufacture of flint glass. Called also red lead.
- English Word Miniver Definition A fur esteemed in the Middle Ages as a part of costume. It is uncertain whether it was the fur of one animal only or of different animals.
- English Word Minivet Definition A singing bird of India of the family Campephagidae.
- English Word Mink Definition A carnivorous mammal of the genus Putorius, allied to the weasel. The European mink is Putorius lutreola. The common American mink (P. vison) varies from yellowish brown to black. Its fur is highly valued. Called also minx, nurik, and vison.
- English Word Minnesinger Definition A love-singer; specifically, one of a class of German poets and musicians who flourished from about the middle of the twelfth to the middle of the fourteenth century. They were chiefly of noble birth, and made love and beauty the subjects of their verses.
- English Word Minnow Definition A small European fresh-water cyprinoid fish (Phoxinus laevis, formerly Leuciscus phoxinus); sometimes applied also to the young of larger kinds; -- called also minim and minny. The name is also applied to several allied American species, of the genera Phoxinus, Notropis, or Minnilus, and Rhinichthys.
- English Word Minnow Definition Any of numerous small American cyprinodont fishes of the genus Fundulus, and related genera. They live both in fresh and in salt water. Called also killifish, minny, and mummichog.
- English Word Minny Definition A minnow.
- English Word Mino bird Definition An Asiatic bird (Gracula musica), allied to the starlings. It is black, with a white spot on the wings, and a pair of flat yellow wattles on the head. It is often tamed and taught to pronounce words.
- English Word Minor Definition Inferior in bulk, degree, importance, etc.; less; smaller; of little account; as, minor divisions of a body.
- English Word Minor Definition Less by a semitone in interval or difference of pitch; as, a minor third.
- English Word Minor Definition A person of either sex who has not attained the age at which full civil rights are accorded; an infant; in England and the United States, one under twenty-one years of age.
- English Word Minor Definition The minor term, that is, the subject of the conclusion; also, the minor premise, that is, that premise which contains the minor term; in hypothetical syllogisms, the categorical premise. It is the second proposition of a regular syllogism, as in the following: Every act of injustice partakes of meanness; to take money from another by gaming is an act of injustice; therefore, the taking of money from another by gaming partakes of meanness.