单词 | ministrate |
释义 | ministratev. 1. transitive. Originally Scottish. To minister or administer (in various senses). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > carrying out > execute, perform, or carry out [verb (transitive)] > execute (justice, vengeance, etc.) takec1300 dispensea1398 minister1426 administer1443 ministrate1496 execute1530 distributea1616 administrate1649 1496 in G. Neilson & H. Paton Acts Lords of Council Civil Causes (1918) II. 7 That justice may be ministrat thairintil as efferis. 1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1903) II. iii. xvi. 8 M. Claudius had complenit a litill þat na Iustice was ministrate to him. 1559 in P. F. Tytler Hist. Scotl. (1864) III. 391 Their minister shall have full liberty..to ministrate the sacraments, publicly and privately. 1639 Marquis of Hamilton Explan. Meaning Oath 12 [They] refuse the participation of the holy sacraments as they are now ministrate. 1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II To Ministrate, to minister or serve. 1843 C. F. Hoffman Wild Scenes in Forest & Prairie II. 159 Faustiz..scattereth the good things abroad which these foolish people would ministrate for their own exclusive use. 1954 W. Faulkner Fable 241 Antipas his friends and their friends..administrator clacquer and absolver to ministrate the attempt and applaud the intention and absolve the failed result. 2. intransitive. To minister (to). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > types of help > [verb (transitive)] > lend (aid) to bring about a result > lend contributory aid to servea1398 to contribute to (also for) or to do1605 administer1608 surrogate1681 minister1696 ministrate1887 1887 R. Browning F. Furini in Parleyings 154 Learn how they ministrate to life and death. 1897 J. W. Riley Rubáiyát Doc Sifers 17 I 'preciate the man 'at 's got the love To ‘go ye forth and ministrate!’ as Scriptur' tells us of. 1982 S. Barker Fire in Rain v. 133 I imagined God as metal, melted down, molten in the interior, yet so imagined, that as a mind moved away from the centre, it perceived the lesser metals ministrating to the centre. 1991 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 27 Sept. c15 The three witches have been transformed into attractive, nun-like Army nurses who begin the play by ministrating to the needs of wounded soldiers. Derivatives ˈministrating n. rare ΚΠ 1894 Scottish Rev. July 62 One or two pastors still living who have celebrated their ministrating jubilees. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1496 |
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