English words for 'Former minister.'
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noun
verb
noun
- (government) A politician who heads a ministry
- a person authorized to conduct religious worship
- a diplomat representing one government to another; ranks below ambassador
- the job of a head of a government department
- a person appointed to a high office in the government
- (Protestantism) A person who is trained to preach, to perform religious ceremonies, and to afford pastoral care at a Protestant church.
- In diplomacy, the rank of diplomat directly below ambassador.
- A servant; a subordinate; an officer or assistant of inferior rank; hence, an agent, an instrument.
- (Roman Catholicism) A person (either a layperson or an ordained clergy member) who is commissioned to perform some act on behalf of the Catholic Church.
adj
- Related to a governmental minister or ministry.
- of or relating to a minister of religion or the minister's office
- of or relating to a government minister or ministry
- Related to a religious minister or ministry.
- Having the power to wield delegated executive authority.
- (especially law) Serving as an instrument or means (i.e., procedural or ancillary, not substantive).
noun
noun
- Initialism of senior minister of state.
- (military, nautical, initialism) SMS — Seiner Majestät Schiff – literally, "His Majesty's Ship" in German;
- (neurology) Initialism of stiff man syndrome.
- (psychology) Initialism of short man syndrome.
- (numismatics) Initialism of special mint set.
- Initialism of salesman sample.
- (countable) A text message sent using the short message service.
- A ship prefix for a ship in the navy of the Empire of Germany (usually for the period leading to WWI and WWI)
- Initialism of safety management system: a system designed to identify and manage occupational safety and health risks.
- (genetics, pathology) Initialism of Smith-Magenis syndrome.
name
verb
noun
- the job of a senior minister who is a member of the cabinet
- a person who is a member of the cabinet
- (politics) A member of the executive branch of a government who has been appointed to the cabinet, the group of leading policy makers, advisers, and overseers of governmental departments who report to the prime minister.
noun
adj
- Eternal, holy, or otherwise godlike.
- Of superhuman or surpassing excellence.
- Of or pertaining to a god.
- Relating to divinity or theology.
- Beautiful, heavenly.
- being or having the nature of a god
- resulting from divine providence
- being of such surpassing excellence as to suggest inspiration by the gods
- appropriate to or befitting a god
- devoted to or in the service or worship of a deity
- emanating from God
verb
- (transitive) To guess or discover (something) through intuition or insight.
- (transitive) To search for (underground objects or water) using a divining rod.
- (transitive) To foretell (something), especially by the use of divination.
- To render divine; to deify.
- search by divining, as if with a rod
- perceive intuitively or through some inexplicable perceptive powers
noun
- a clergyman ministering to some institution
- A member of a religious body who is (often, although not always, of the clergy) officially assigned to provide pastoral care at an institution, group, private chapel, etc.
- A person without religious affiliation who carries out similar duties in a secular context.
noun
- a senior clergyman and dignitary
- a person who holds a high position in a hierarchy
- (Eastern Orthodoxy) A title of bishops in their role as ordinaries (arbiters of canon law) over their respective dioceses.
- (religion) One who has high and controlling authority in sacred things; the chief of a sacred order.
noun
- a senior clergyman and dignitary
- a preeminent authority or major proponent of a movement or doctrine
- (Mormonism) The second-lowest office in the Melchizedek priesthood.
- (figurative) A person holding a position of power or influence; an authority in a field of study, doctrine, art or a movement.
- (religion) A clergyman with a higher function than a normal priest.
- (Wicca) A second or third degree male witch in Wicca.
- (Christianity) Jesus Christ.
- In the Bible, the male individual who was responsible for making the annual sacrifice on the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur); always a descendant of Aaron, the older brother of Moses. See Kohen Gadol.
noun
- a senior clergyman and dignitary
- any placental mammal of the order Primates; has good eyesight and flexible hands and feet
- (zoology) A mammal of the order Primates, including apes (which include humans), monkeys, lemurs, tarsiers, lorisids, and galagos.
- (Christianity) In the Catholic Church, a rare title conferred to or claimed by the sees of certain archbishops, or the highest-ranking bishop of a present or historical, usually political circumscription.
- (Christianity) In the Orthodox Church, the presiding bishop of an ecclesiastical jurisdiction or region. Usually, the expression primate refers to the first hierarch of an autocephalous or autonomous Orthodox church. Less often, it is used to refer to the ruling bishop of an archdiocese or diocese.
- (informal) A simian anthropoid; an ape (including human) or monkey.
- (Christianity) In the Anglican Church, an archbishop, or the highest-ranking bishop of an ecclesiastic province.
noun
- a professor or minister who is retired from assigned duties
- (plural emeriti or (rare) emerituses) A (male) person who is retired from active service or an occupation, especially one who retains an honorific version of a previous title.
- (rare, plural emerituses) An honorific version of a previous title.
adj
noun
- the work of a minister of religion
- religious ministers collectively (especially Presbyterian)
- building where the business of a government ministry is transacted
- a government department under the direction of a minister of state
- The active practice and education of the minister of a particular religion or faith.
- Government department, at the administrative level normally headed by a minister (or equivalent rank, e.g. secretary of state), who holds it as portfolio, especially in a constitutional monarchy, but also as a polity
- A ministration
- The complete body of government ministers (whether or not they are in cabinet) under the leadership of a head of government (such as a prime minister)
- (Christianity) The clergy of nonapostolic Protestant churches.
- (Christianity) Work of a spiritual or charitable nature.
noun
- Initialism of senior parliamentary secretary.
- (pathology) Initialism of sticky platelet syndrome.
- Initialism of supplementary policy statement.
- (electricity) Initialism of stand-alone power system/supply.
- (psychology) Initialism of sensory processing sensitivity.
- (electricity) Initialism of solar power station.
- (electricity) Initialism of supplementary power system/supply.
- Initialism of standalone photovoltaic system/supply.
- (electricity) Initialism of standby power system/supply.
- (electricity) Initialism of smart power system/supply.
- (aerospace) Initialism of satellite power system.
- (aviation) Initialism of stall protection/prevention system.
- (psychology) Initialism of small penis syndrome.
- (pathology) Initialism of stiff person syndrome.
- (aerospace) Initialism of solar power satellite.
name
noun
- (countable) Initialism of first minister.
- (countable) Initialism of foreign minister.
- (countable, aviation) Initialism of fan marker.
- (uncountable) Initialism of frequency modulation; radio programming that is broadcast in this form.
- Initialism of foreign ministry.
- (countable, military) Initialism of field marshal.
- (pathology) Initialism of fibromyalgia.
- (countable) Initialism of finance minister.
- (countable, chess) Initialism of FIDE Master.
- Initialism of first ministry.
- Initialism of finance ministry.
- (countable) Initialism of field manual.
- modulation of the frequency of the (radio) carrier wave
verb
- (intransitive) To minister (to).
- (transitive, medicine) To give (a drug, to a patient), be it orally or by any other means.
- (transitive) To apportion out, distribute.
- (law) To settle, as the estate of one who dies without a will, or whose will fails of an executor.
- (transitive) To manage or supervise the conduct, performance or execution of; to govern or regulate the parameters for the conduct, performance or execution of; to work in an administrative capacity.
- (transitive, medicine) To cause (a patient, human or animal) to ingest (a drug), either by openly offering or through deceit.
- To give, as an oath.
- perform (a church sacrament) ritually
- administer or bestow, as in small portions
- give or apply (medications)
- direct the taking of
- work in an administrative capacity; supervise or be in charge of
noun
adj
name
noun
- a Protestant layman who assists the minister
- a cleric ranking just below a priest in Christian churches; one of the Holy Orders
- (Christianity, by extension) A modern-day member of a church who handles secular and/or administrative duties in a priest's stead, the specifics of which depends on denomination.
- (US, animal husbandry) A male calf of a dairy breed, so called because they are usually deaconed (see below).
- (Anglicanism) An ordained clergyperson usually serving a year prior to being ordained presbyter, though in some cases they remain a permanent deacon.
- (Methodism) A separate office from that of minister, neither leading to the other; instead there is a permanent deaconate.
- (Mormonism) The lowest office in the Aaronic priesthood, generally held by 12 or 13 year old boys or recent converts.
- (early Christianity) A designated minister of charity in the early Church (see Acts 6:1-6).
- (Evangelicalism) A lay leader of a congregation who assists the pastor.
- (Catholicism, Lutheranism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Oriental Orthodoxy, Church of the East) A clergyman ranked directly below a priest, with duties of helping the priests and carrying out parish work.
- (Scotland) The chairman of an incorporated company.
- (Freemasonry) A junior lodge officer.
verb
- (US, slang) To make sly alterations to the boundaries of (land); to adulterate or doctor (an article to be sold), etc.
- (Christianity, music) For a choir leader to lead a hymn by speaking one or two lines at a time, which are then sung by the choir.
- (US, slang) To place fresh fruit at the top of a barrel or other container, with spoiled or imperfect fruit hidden beneath.
- (US, animal husbandry) To kill a calf shortly after birth.
noun
- A person who holds multiple offices, especially a clergyman who holds more than one ecclesiastical benefice.
- An advocate of pluralism (in all senses)
- a philosopher who believes that no single explanation can account for all the phenomena of nature
- someone who believes that distinct ethnic or cultural or religious groups can exist together in society
- a cleric who holds more than one benefice at a time
adj
noun
noun
- Initialism of senior minister of state.
- (military, nautical, initialism) SMS — Seiner Majestät Schiff – literally, "His Majesty's Ship" in German;
- (neurology) Initialism of stiff man syndrome.
- (psychology) Initialism of short man syndrome.
- (numismatics) Initialism of special mint set.
- Initialism of salesman sample.
- (countable) A text message sent using the short message service.
- A ship prefix for a ship in the navy of the Empire of Germany (usually for the period leading to WWI and WWI)
- Initialism of safety management system: a system designed to identify and manage occupational safety and health risks.
- (genetics, pathology) Initialism of Smith-Magenis syndrome.
name
verb
noun
- the job of a senior minister who is a member of the cabinet
- a person who is a member of the cabinet
- (politics) A member of the executive branch of a government who has been appointed to the cabinet, the group of leading policy makers, advisers, and overseers of governmental departments who report to the prime minister.
noun
adj
- Eternal, holy, or otherwise godlike.
- Of superhuman or surpassing excellence.
- Of or pertaining to a god.
- Relating to divinity or theology.
- Beautiful, heavenly.
- being or having the nature of a god
- resulting from divine providence
- being of such surpassing excellence as to suggest inspiration by the gods
- appropriate to or befitting a god
- devoted to or in the service or worship of a deity
- emanating from God
verb
- (transitive) To guess or discover (something) through intuition or insight.
- (transitive) To search for (underground objects or water) using a divining rod.
- (transitive) To foretell (something), especially by the use of divination.
- To render divine; to deify.
- search by divining, as if with a rod
- perceive intuitively or through some inexplicable perceptive powers
noun
- a clergyman ministering to some institution
- A member of a religious body who is (often, although not always, of the clergy) officially assigned to provide pastoral care at an institution, group, private chapel, etc.
- A person without religious affiliation who carries out similar duties in a secular context.
verb
noun
- (government) A politician who heads a ministry
- a person authorized to conduct religious worship
- a diplomat representing one government to another; ranks below ambassador
- the job of a head of a government department
- a person appointed to a high office in the government
- (Protestantism) A person who is trained to preach, to perform religious ceremonies, and to afford pastoral care at a Protestant church.
- In diplomacy, the rank of diplomat directly below ambassador.
- A servant; a subordinate; an officer or assistant of inferior rank; hence, an agent, an instrument.
- (Roman Catholicism) A person (either a layperson or an ordained clergy member) who is commissioned to perform some act on behalf of the Catholic Church.
noun
- a senior clergyman and dignitary
- a person who holds a high position in a hierarchy
- (Eastern Orthodoxy) A title of bishops in their role as ordinaries (arbiters of canon law) over their respective dioceses.
- (religion) One who has high and controlling authority in sacred things; the chief of a sacred order.
noun
- a senior clergyman and dignitary
- a preeminent authority or major proponent of a movement or doctrine
- (Mormonism) The second-lowest office in the Melchizedek priesthood.
- (figurative) A person holding a position of power or influence; an authority in a field of study, doctrine, art or a movement.
- (religion) A clergyman with a higher function than a normal priest.
- (Wicca) A second or third degree male witch in Wicca.
- (Christianity) Jesus Christ.
- In the Bible, the male individual who was responsible for making the annual sacrifice on the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur); always a descendant of Aaron, the older brother of Moses. See Kohen Gadol.
noun
- a senior clergyman and dignitary
- any placental mammal of the order Primates; has good eyesight and flexible hands and feet
- (zoology) A mammal of the order Primates, including apes (which include humans), monkeys, lemurs, tarsiers, lorisids, and galagos.
- (Christianity) In the Catholic Church, a rare title conferred to or claimed by the sees of certain archbishops, or the highest-ranking bishop of a present or historical, usually political circumscription.
- (Christianity) In the Orthodox Church, the presiding bishop of an ecclesiastical jurisdiction or region. Usually, the expression primate refers to the first hierarch of an autocephalous or autonomous Orthodox church. Less often, it is used to refer to the ruling bishop of an archdiocese or diocese.
- (informal) A simian anthropoid; an ape (including human) or monkey.
- (Christianity) In the Anglican Church, an archbishop, or the highest-ranking bishop of an ecclesiastic province.
noun
- a professor or minister who is retired from assigned duties
- (plural emeriti or (rare) emerituses) A (male) person who is retired from active service or an occupation, especially one who retains an honorific version of a previous title.
- (rare, plural emerituses) An honorific version of a previous title.
adj
noun
- the work of a minister of religion
- religious ministers collectively (especially Presbyterian)
- building where the business of a government ministry is transacted
- a government department under the direction of a minister of state
- The active practice and education of the minister of a particular religion or faith.
- Government department, at the administrative level normally headed by a minister (or equivalent rank, e.g. secretary of state), who holds it as portfolio, especially in a constitutional monarchy, but also as a polity
- A ministration
- The complete body of government ministers (whether or not they are in cabinet) under the leadership of a head of government (such as a prime minister)
- (Christianity) The clergy of nonapostolic Protestant churches.
- (Christianity) Work of a spiritual or charitable nature.
noun
- Initialism of senior parliamentary secretary.
- (pathology) Initialism of sticky platelet syndrome.
- Initialism of supplementary policy statement.
- (electricity) Initialism of stand-alone power system/supply.
- (psychology) Initialism of sensory processing sensitivity.
- (electricity) Initialism of solar power station.
- (electricity) Initialism of supplementary power system/supply.
- Initialism of standalone photovoltaic system/supply.
- (electricity) Initialism of standby power system/supply.
- (electricity) Initialism of smart power system/supply.
- (aerospace) Initialism of satellite power system.
- (aviation) Initialism of stall protection/prevention system.
- (psychology) Initialism of small penis syndrome.
- (pathology) Initialism of stiff person syndrome.
- (aerospace) Initialism of solar power satellite.
name
noun
- (countable) Initialism of first minister.
- (countable) Initialism of foreign minister.
- (countable, aviation) Initialism of fan marker.
- (uncountable) Initialism of frequency modulation; radio programming that is broadcast in this form.
- Initialism of foreign ministry.
- (countable, military) Initialism of field marshal.
- (pathology) Initialism of fibromyalgia.
- (countable) Initialism of finance minister.
- (countable, chess) Initialism of FIDE Master.
- Initialism of first ministry.
- Initialism of finance ministry.
- (countable) Initialism of field manual.
- modulation of the frequency of the (radio) carrier wave
noun
adj
name
noun
- a Protestant layman who assists the minister
- a cleric ranking just below a priest in Christian churches; one of the Holy Orders
- (Christianity, by extension) A modern-day member of a church who handles secular and/or administrative duties in a priest's stead, the specifics of which depends on denomination.
- (US, animal husbandry) A male calf of a dairy breed, so called because they are usually deaconed (see below).
- (Anglicanism) An ordained clergyperson usually serving a year prior to being ordained presbyter, though in some cases they remain a permanent deacon.
- (Methodism) A separate office from that of minister, neither leading to the other; instead there is a permanent deaconate.
- (Mormonism) The lowest office in the Aaronic priesthood, generally held by 12 or 13 year old boys or recent converts.
- (early Christianity) A designated minister of charity in the early Church (see Acts 6:1-6).
- (Evangelicalism) A lay leader of a congregation who assists the pastor.
- (Catholicism, Lutheranism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Oriental Orthodoxy, Church of the East) A clergyman ranked directly below a priest, with duties of helping the priests and carrying out parish work.
- (Scotland) The chairman of an incorporated company.
- (Freemasonry) A junior lodge officer.
verb
- (US, slang) To make sly alterations to the boundaries of (land); to adulterate or doctor (an article to be sold), etc.
- (Christianity, music) For a choir leader to lead a hymn by speaking one or two lines at a time, which are then sung by the choir.
- (US, slang) To place fresh fruit at the top of a barrel or other container, with spoiled or imperfect fruit hidden beneath.
- (US, animal husbandry) To kill a calf shortly after birth.
noun
- A person who holds multiple offices, especially a clergyman who holds more than one ecclesiastical benefice.
- An advocate of pluralism (in all senses)
- a philosopher who believes that no single explanation can account for all the phenomena of nature
- someone who believes that distinct ethnic or cultural or religious groups can exist together in society
- a cleric who holds more than one benefice at a time
adj
verb
noun
- (government) A politician who heads a ministry
- a person authorized to conduct religious worship
- a diplomat representing one government to another; ranks below ambassador
- the job of a head of a government department
- a person appointed to a high office in the government
- (Protestantism) A person who is trained to preach, to perform religious ceremonies, and to afford pastoral care at a Protestant church.
- In diplomacy, the rank of diplomat directly below ambassador.
- A servant; a subordinate; an officer or assistant of inferior rank; hence, an agent, an instrument.
- (Roman Catholicism) A person (either a layperson or an ordained clergy member) who is commissioned to perform some act on behalf of the Catholic Church.
verb
- (intransitive) To minister (to).
- (transitive, medicine) To give (a drug, to a patient), be it orally or by any other means.
- (transitive) To apportion out, distribute.
- (law) To settle, as the estate of one who dies without a will, or whose will fails of an executor.
- (transitive) To manage or supervise the conduct, performance or execution of; to govern or regulate the parameters for the conduct, performance or execution of; to work in an administrative capacity.
- (transitive, medicine) To cause (a patient, human or animal) to ingest (a drug), either by openly offering or through deceit.
- To give, as an oath.
- perform (a church sacrament) ritually
- administer or bestow, as in small portions
- give or apply (medications)
- direct the taking of
- work in an administrative capacity; supervise or be in charge of
adj
- Related to a governmental minister or ministry.
- of or relating to a minister of religion or the minister's office
- of or relating to a government minister or ministry
- Related to a religious minister or ministry.
- Having the power to wield delegated executive authority.
- (especially law) Serving as an instrument or means (i.e., procedural or ancillary, not substantive).