单词 | unministerial |
释义 | unministerialadj. Not ministerial; esp. not befitting a minister. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > the common people > the common people of any group > [adjective] > having no office singularc1386 private1437 unministerial1646 society > authority > office > holder of office > high officials of state > [adjective] > not appropriate to a minister unministerial1646 1646 T. Edwards 3rd Pt. Gangræna f. 40 Cretensis, whose bitter, arrogant, unministeriall stile and passages, will be enough to lay open to the world the temper of the mans spirit. 1727 A. Pope et al. Περι Βαθους: Art of Sinking 79 in J. Swift et al. Misc.: Last Vol. Used in the Praise and Dispraise of Ministerial and Unministerial Persons. a1743 Ld. Hervey Mem. Reign George II (1848) (modernized text) I. 492 One of the most impolitic unministerial acts I ever knew him guilty of. 1816 S. T. Coleridge Lett. (1895) 660 The plain, unministerial..spirit of your writings. 1863 E. J. May Stronges of Netherstronge 115 The perplexed minister recollected his office in time to repress a very unministerial reply. 1927 Columbia Law Rev. 27 745 A resolution of a ministers' society denouncing a member for unministerial conduct. 1962 J. Dos Passos Mr. Wilson's War iii. 31 Tales were handed down in the family of most unministerial frolickings when Dr. Wilson roughhoused with children. 1998 Daily Tel. 22 Apr. 11/1 He has also borne the brunt of highly unministerial outbursts by Government ministers. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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