minister vs administer
Definitions
noun
- the job of a head of a government department
- a diplomat representing one government to another; ranks below ambassador
- a person appointed to a high office in the government
- a person authorized to conduct religious worship
verb
- attend to the wants and needs of others
- work as a minister
Examples
The job of ministers is to abolish and remove these obstacles to good teaching.
The Lord ministered to her, offering unconditional love and acceptance and washing her clean from the grime of her experience.
The Prime Minister, who seems to make a fetish of showing that power is not incompatible with panache, is (or so his spokesman says) a Stones fan.
Definitions
verb
- give or apply (medications)
- perform (a church sacrament) ritually
- administer or bestow, as in small portions
- direct the taking of
- work in an administrative capacity; supervise or be in charge of
Examples
But do not administer hellebore to such persons as are laboring under empyema connected with abscesses, haemoptysis, and intemperament, or any other strong cause, for it will do no good; and if any thing unpleasant occur the hellebore will get the blame of it.
Six years later, one of the federal agencies that administers the program calls it a flop.
When the matador realises the bull is weak and unable to charge much longer he will reach for his killing sword and seek to manoeuvre it directly in front of him with its head down, so that he can administer the death stroke.
