ministrant

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

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

"So worked Mind: its tribe433 Of senses ministrant above, below, Far, near, or now or haply long ago Brought to pass knowledge."

From Browning's England A Study in English Influences in Browning by Clarke, Helen Archibald

In the upper part of the picture, facing in every case but one towards the ministrant, is a bird figure, different on each page, and having in two cases a human head.

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

On the whole subject of the use of the skins of animals as clothing of the god or the ministrant, see Lobeck, Aglaoph., pp. 188-186, and Robertson Smith, op. cit.

From Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Lang, Andrew

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