minister vb.:
1.
to furnish, supply
Ado II. i. 387
“ such
assistance,”
R2 II. iii. 105
“ correction to thy
fault,”
Oth. II. i. 279
“what other course you
please, which the time shall . . . ”
; to prompt, suggest
Meas. IV. v. 6
“As cause doth
minister.”
2.
to perform (a
ceremony) Tp. IV. i. 17.
3.
to apply or
administer (something healing or the reverse) Gent. II. iv. 151,
John V. i. 15
“present medicine must
be m-'d,”
Rom. IV. iii. 25, Per. III. ii. 8; absol.
Mac. V. iii. 40
“ to a mind
diseas'”
