Definition of "ministering" Of one who , or something that , administers . quotations examples
Quotations Hitherto all that I had acquired had been unsatisfactory —the reward was too distant ; but Carrara 's mystic eloquence brought the result of our midnight vigils visibly before me ; and when I left him , it was to dream of the glorious secrets which , once penetrated , would lay all nature open to our eyes , and leave all its ministering spirits bowed to our rule by spell and sign .
1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), page 126