ministrate

[ min-uh-streyt ]

verb (used without object)

, min·is·trat·ed, min·is·trat·ing.

1. to minister or administer.
2. Nonstandard. to menstruate.

Example Sentences

But, gittin' back to docterin'—all the sick and in distress, And old and pore, and weak and small, and lone and motherless,— I jes tell you I 'preciate the man 'at 's got the love To "go ye forth and ministrate!" as Scriptur' tells us of.

From Project Gutenberg

We suspecting nothing that the Quein Regent wes consenting to the foirnamed murther, most humilie did complayne of suche injust crueltie, requiring that justice in suche cases should be ministrate with greattare indifference.

From Project Gutenberg

To forget her under overwhelming provocation he had reconciled to his conscience with little difficulty, for his extenuations were many, and puritanism had not yet invaded the national character; but to permit another woman to ministrate to him when ill, he felt to be an unpardonable breach of his Eliza's rights, and his loyalty rebelled.

From Project Gutenberg