ministerial

ministerial
adjective
  1. of or relating to a government minister or ministers
    (与)部长(或大臣)(有关)的
    a back-bencher who had never held ministerial office.
    从未任过部长的后座议员。
  2. of or relating to a minister of religion
    (与)牧师(有关)的
  3. (archaic)acting as an agent, instrument, or means in achieving a purpose
    (古)作为代理(或工具、手段)的
    those uses of conversation which are ministerial to intellectual culture.
    谈话作为智育教育手段的运用。
派生
ministerially
adverb
语源
  1. mid 16th cent.: from French ministériel or late Latin ministerialis, from Latin ministerium 'ministry'
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