The office, duties or functions of a subordinate agent of any kind.

Agency; service; aid; interposition; instrumentality. He directs the affairs of this world by the ordinary ministry of second causes.

Ecclesiastical function; agency or service of a minister of the gospel or clergyman in the modern church, or of priests, apostles and evangelists in the ancient. Acts 1:25; Romans 12:7; 2 Timothy 4:5; Numbers 4:47.

Time of ministration; duration of the office of a minister, civil or ecclesiastical. The war with France was during the ministry of Pitt .

Persons who compose the executive government or the council of a supreme magistrate; the body of ministers of state.W// .

Business; employment. He abhorred the wicked ministry of arms.