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。
of or relating to a minister of religion (与)牧师(有关)的
(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
mid 16th cent.: from French ministériel or late Latin ministerialis, from Latin ministerium 'ministry'