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Ministrant

Performing service as a minister; attendant on service; acting under command; subordinate.

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Helpful 84% connected

Furnishing help; giving aid; assistant; useful; salutary.

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Helpful 84% connected

Furnishing help; giving aid; assistant; useful; salutary.

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Curate 76% connected

One who has the cure of souls; originally, any clergyman, but now usually limited to one who assists a rector or vicar.

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Minister 76% connected

A servant; a subordinate; an officer or assistant of inferior rank; hence, an agent, an instrument.

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Parson 76% connected

A person who represents a parish in its ecclesiastical and corporate capacities; hence, the rector or incumbent of a parochial church, who has full p…

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Pastor 76% connected

A shepherd; one who has the care of flocks and herds.

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Rector 76% connected

A ruler or governor.

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Minister 74% connected

A servant; a subordinate; an officer or assistant of inferior rank; hence, an agent, an instrument.

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Minister 74% connected

A servant; a subordinate; an officer or assistant of inferior rank; hence, an agent, an instrument.

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Attending 92% connected

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Administration noun · 78% connection

the act of governing; exercising authority; "regulations for the governing of state prisons"; "he had considerable experience of gover…

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Agency noun · 78% connection

an administrative unit of government; "the Central Intelligence Agency"; "the Census Bureau"; "Office of Management and Budget"; "Tenn…

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Authority noun · 78% connection

an administrative unit of government; "the Central Intelligence Agency"; "the Census Bureau"; "Office of Management and Budget"; "Tenn…

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Bureau noun · 78% connection

an administrative unit of government; "the Central Intelligence Agency"; "the Census Bureau"; "Office of Management and Budget"; "Tenn…

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Cabinet noun · 78% connection

persons appointed by a head of state to head executive departments of government and act as official advisers

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Chief executive noun · 78% connection

the person who holds the office of head of state of the United States government; "the President likes to jog every morning"

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Executive adjective · 78% connection

having the function of carrying out plans or orders etc.; "the executive branch"

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Federal agency noun · 78% connection

an administrative unit of government; "the Central Intelligence Agency"; "the Census Bureau"; "Office of Management and Budget"; "Tenn…

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Governance noun · 78% connection

the act of governing; exercising authority; "regulations for the governing of state prisons"; "he had considerable experience of gover…

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Governing noun · 78% connection

the act of governing; exercising authority; "regulations for the governing of state prisons"; "he had considerable experience of gover…

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Government noun · 78% connection

(government) the system or form by which a community or other political unit is governed; "tyrannical government"

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Government activity noun · 78% connection

the act of governing; exercising authority; "regulations for the governing of state prisons"; "he had considerable experience of gover…

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Government agency noun · 78% connection

an administrative unit of government; "the Central Intelligence Agency"; "the Census Bureau"; "Office of Management and Budget"; "Tenn…

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Minister of religion noun · 78% connection

a person authorized to conduct religious worship; "clergymen are usually called ministers in Protestant churches"

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Accessory adjective · 78% connection

Accompanying as a subordinate; aiding in a secondary way; additional; connected as an incident or subordinate to a principal; contribu…

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Acolyte noun · 78% connection

someone who assists a priest or minister in a liturgical service; a cleric ordained in the highest of the minor orders in the Roman Ca…

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Active adjective · 78% connection

Having the power or quality of acting; causing change; communicating action or motion; acting; -- opposed to passive, that receives; a…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: performing, service, minister, attendant, acting.
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Adjunct noun · 78% connection

A key or scale closely related to another as principal; a relative or attendant key. [R.] See Attendant keys, under Attendant, a.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: performing, service, minister, attendant, acting.
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Attendant verb · 78% connection

Depending on, or owing duty or service to; as, the widow attendant to the heir.

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Bank noun · 78% connection

An establishment for the custody, loan, exchange, or issue, of money, and for facilitating the transmission of funds by drafts or bill…

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Chaplain noun · 78% connection

A clergyman who is officially attached to the army or navy, to some public institution, or to a family or court, for the purpose of pe…

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Charge d'affaires noun · 78% connection

A diplomatic representative, or minister of an inferior grade, accredited by the government of one state to the minister of foreign af…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: performing, service, minister, attendant, acting.
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Chivalry noun · 78% connection

A tenure of lands by knight's service; that is, by the condition of a knight's performing service on horseback, or of performing some…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: performing, service, minister, attendant, acting.
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Clergyman noun · 78% connection

An ordained minister; a man regularly authorized to preach the gospel, and administer its ordinances; in England usually restricted to…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: performing, service, minister, attendant, acting.
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Command noun · 78% connection

Control; power over something; sway; influence; as, to have command over one's temper or voice; the fort has command of the bridge.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: performing, service, minister, attendant, acting.
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Countermand noun · 78% connection

a contrary command cancelling or reversing a previous command

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: performing, service, minister, attendant, acting.
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Deacon noun · 78% connection

An officer in Christian churches appointed to perform certain subordinate duties varying in different communions. In the Roman Catholi…

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Deportment noun · 78% connection

Manner of deporting or demeaning one's self; manner of acting; conduct; carriage; especially, manner of acting with respect to the cou…

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Dictate verb · 78% connection

To say; to utter; to communicate authoritatively; to deliver (a command) to a subordinate; to declare with authority; to impose; as, t…

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Double-acting adjective · 78% connection

Acting or operating in two directions or with both motions; producing a twofold result; as, a double-acting engine or pump.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: performing, service, minister, attendant, acting.
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Execution noun · 78% connection

The act of the mode of performing a work of art, of performing on an instrument, of engraving, etc.; as, the execution of a statue, pa…

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Faction noun · 78% connection

A party, in political society, combined or acting in union, in opposition to the government, or state; -- usually applied to a minorit…

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