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Moses rose up, and his minister
Joshua.

I chose

Camillo for the minister, to poison

My friend Polixenes.

2. An officer of justice. [Obs.]

I cry out the on the ministres, quod he,

That shoulde keep and rule this cité.

3. One to whom the sovereign or executive
head of a government intrusts the management of affairs of state, or
some department of such affairs.

Ministers to kings, whose eyes, ears, and hands
they are, must be answerable to God and man.

4. A representative of a government, sent to
the court, or seat of government, of a foreign nation to transact
diplomatic business.

&fist; Ambassadors are classed (in the diplomatic sense) in the
first rank of public ministers, ministers plenipotentiary in the
second. "The United States diplomatic service employs two classes of
ministers, -- ministers plenipotentiary and ministers resident."
Abbott.


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