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... befriend, take in hand, enlist under the banners of; side with &c (cooperate) 709. be of use to; subserve &c (instrument) 631; benefit &c 648; render a service &c (utility) 644; conduce &c (tend) 176. Adj. aiding &c v.; auxiliary, adjuvant, helpful; coadjuvant &c 709 [Obs.]; subservient, ministrant, ancillary, accessory, subsidiary. at one's beck, at one's beck and call; friendly, amicable, favorable, propitious, well-disposed; neighborly; obliging &c (benevolent) 906. Adv. with the aid, by the aid of &c; on behalf of, in behalf of; ...

— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget

... ministrant to divers at the same moment"—thence, to aid the fancy—borrows or rather steals from the mind the idea of 'total 'in omni parte',' which alone furnishes the analogy; but that both it and by it a myriad of other material images do enwrap themselves 'in hac ...

— The Literary Remains Of Samuel Taylor Coleridge • Edited By Henry Nelson Coleridge

... breath of my life. It is heavenly to know that God has given you, and you alone, to be the angel ministrant of my oft tempestuous life: you have risen like a star over my cloudy horizon—may the light of the gentle star shine on my path, until it leads ...

— The Wedding Guest • T.S. Arthur

... loved the refrain that recurred at the end of each verse with only the change of a word. It was her little Jean's lullaby, who became, at the caprice of the words, turn and turn about, General, Lawyer, and ministrant at the altar in ...

— The Aspirations of Jean Servien • Anatole France

Words linked to "Ministrant" : pastor, parson, minister, curate, minister of religion, helpful, rector