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ministrynoun something used to achieve an endI don't care by what ministry it's accomplished, so long as it's done agency, agent, instrument, instrumentality, machinery, means, medium, organ, vehicle determinant, expedient, factor, influence, ingredient, mechanism, toolweaponactivator, animator, catalyst, driver, energizer, executor, generator, impetus, incentive, inspiration, instigation, instigator, launcher, mover, power, stimulus, triggerantecedent, cause, occasion, reasonsubagency, subagent the group ordained to perform clerical functions in the Christian churchthe ranks of the ministry have dwindled considerably in recent years church, clergy, cloth, first estate, spirituality, spiritualty diaconate, episcopate, hierarchy, presbyteryclerkship, monkhood, priesthood laity in the 14th century |