ministrant

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“Here is to your health, ministrant spirit!” he said.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

Epaphroditus was no mere agent; he was a "ministrant," commissioned from a high quarter—the Philippians' love.

From Philippian Studies Lessons in Faith and Love from St. Paul's Epistle to the Philippians by Moule, H. C. G. (Handley Carr Glyn)

Why must you, who give me heart and power, as nothing else did or could, to do well—concern yourself with what might be done by any good, kind ministrant only fit for such offices?

From The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846 by Browning, Robert

Later, the druid bids Gwennole build a Christian sanctuary on the spot where "the belated ministrant of a fallen faith" died beside Gradlon Maur, the Great King.

From The Divine Adventure Volume IV by Macleod, Fiona

"So worked Mind: its tribe433 Of senses ministrant above, below, Far, near, or now or haply long ago Brought to pass knowledge."

From Browning's England A Study in English Influences in Browning by Clarke, Helen Archibald