ministrant

Example Sentences

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“Here is to your health, ministrant spirit!” he said.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

Epaphroditus was no mere agent; he was a "ministrant," commissioned from a high quarter—the Philippians' love.

From Philippian Studies Lessons in Faith and Love from St. Paul's Epistle to the Philippians by Moule, H. C. G. (Handley Carr Glyn)

The ministrant addressed the postulant, “Brother, dost thou wish to give thyself to our faith?”

From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I by Lea, Henry Charles

In front of the standing ministrant is a vase of offerings, usually a triple Kan figure, and in two cases with knives.

From Commentary Upon the Maya-Tzental Perez Codex with a Concluding Note Upon the Linguistic Problem of the Maya Glyphs by Gates, William

Why must you, who give me heart and power, as nothing else did or could, to do well—concern yourself with what might be done by any good, kind ministrant only fit for such offices?

From The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846 by Browning, Robert