Middle English Dictionary Entry
ministring(e ger.
Entry Info
| Forms | ministring(e ger. |
| Etymology |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Personal service; (b) delivering; (c) granting of an act of grace; (d) providing religious services, administering of sacraments; (e) conveying of the faith, doctrine, truth, etc.; (f) med. application.
Associated quotations
a
- ?a1475(?a1425) Higd.(2) (Hrl 2261)4.265 : Mary..tariede iij monethes in ministrenge to Elisabeth her cosyn.
b
- (c1443) Pecock Rule (Mrg M 519)315 : Þe power which a man haþ aboute þe bigeting of a child..in þe mynystring of mannys seed into a conuenient vessel.
c
- ?c1450(?a1400) Wycl.Clergy HP (Lamb 551)380 : Aftir tyme þat god þe fadir had wrouȝte þis grete miracle..in releuynge of fyve þousande and mo þat wern in mysese of hunger, he avoydid siche worldly rewarde þat schulde haue be ȝoue to hym by occasion of minystrynge of þis grace.
d
- ?c1450(?a1400) Wycl.Clergy HP (Lamb 551)370 : It is wronge and dampnable a seculer man to take up-on hym a prestis office, in prechynge or minystrynge of sacramentis.
- c1450 Jacob's W.(Sal 103)127/14 : Þe vj inche is in schewyng of goddys woord or in mynystryng of sacrament.
- (1453) LRed Bk.Bristol2.202 : The true, due and effectuall diligence of him in ministring the saide deuine seruice.
e
- c1400 Bible SNT(1) (Selw 108 L.1)1 Tim.3.9 : Dekenes also ben chaste..noȝt y-ȝeue to myche wyn..bote hafynge þe mynystrynge of feiþ in a clene consyence.
- c1425 Bible SNT(1) (Cmb Dd.12.39)Deeds 13.5 : Þei preched Goddes worde in þo synagoges of þo Iewes, ande þei haden wiþ hem John in mynisterynge of Goddes worde.
- (c1454) Pecock Fol.(Roy 17.D.9)13/18 : To alle suche bigynners, doctrine is first..to hem mynystrid in her donet..wiþout mynystryng to hem whies..of þe treuþis to hem mynystrid.
- (c1454) Pecock Fol.(Roy 17.D.9)61/19 : Þat we schulden knowe þe treuþ, þouȝ not aftir moost cleer and kunnyngful mynystryng to vs.
f
- c1425 Arderne Fistula (Sln 277)22/2 : Þan be þe pacient ledde to a place made redy, Where þe lech schal do þe mynysteryng of cure.
- ?c1425 Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)563/4 : In þe dede forsoþe of mynistryng of a laxatyf, it is to be ware þat he holde it.