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ministerlike

ministerlike adjective: appropriate for or characteristic of a minister.

Adjective

ministerlike (comparative more ministerlike, superlative most ministerlike)

  1. Appropriate for or characteristic of a minister.
    • To let passe your seoffinge, and your Ministerlike interpretation, let vs comme to the mater & c.1566, John Iewel Bishoppe, A Replie unto M. Hardinges answeare to the Bishop's sermon on 1 Cor. xi. 23
    • If I were, ministerlike, to take a text, there are three I could propose1937, American Education Fellowship, Progressive Education Booklet - Issues 1-15, page 69

Forms of ministerlike

comparativemore ministerlike
superlativemost ministerlike

Origin of ministerlike

From minister + -like.

Questions about ministerlike

What does ministerlike mean?
Ministerlike means appropriate for or characteristic of a minister.
What part of speech is ministerlike?
Ministerlike is an adjective.

Words near ministerlike in the dictionary

  1. ministering angel
  2. ministerings
  3. ministerium
  4. ministeriums
  5. ministerless
  6. ministerlike
  7. ministerly
  8. ministers
  9. ministers of justice
  10. ministers of state
  11. ministers without portfolio

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