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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Ministerial \Min'is*te"ri*al\, adjective [L. ministerialis: cf. F. minist['e]riel. See {Minister}, and cf. {Minstrel}.]
1. Of or pertaining to ministry or service; serving; attendant.
Enlightening spirits and ministerial flames. --Prior.
2. Of or pertaining to the office of a minister or to the ministry as a body, whether civil or sacerdotal. ''Ministerial offices.'' --Bacon. ''A ministerial measure.'' --Junius. ''Ministerial garments.'' --Hooker.
3. Tending to advance or promote; contributive. ''Ministerial to intellectual culture.'' --De Quincey.
{The ministerial benches}, the benches in the House of Commons occupied by members of the cabinet and their supporters; -- also, the persons occupying them. ''Very solid and very brilliant talents distinguish the ministerial benches.'' --Burke.
Syn: Official; priestly; sacerdotal; ecclesiastical.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
ministerial
adjective
1: of or relating to a minister of religion or the minister's office; "ministerial duties"
2: of or relating to a government minister or ministry; "ministerial decree"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
67 Moby Thesaurus words for "ministerial": abbatial, abbatical, accessory, adjuvant, administrating, administrative, agential, agentival, agentive, ambassadorial, ancillary, archiepiscopal, assistant, assisting, auxiliary, bureaucratic, canonical, capitular, capitulary, churchly, clerical, conducive, consular, diplomatic, directing, ecclesiastic, employable, episcopal, episcopalian, evangelistic, executive, facilitating, favoring, forwarding, fostering, handy, helpful, helping, instrumental, intermediary, managing, mediating, mediatorial, ministering, ministrant, nurtural, nutricial, official, officiating, pastoral, plenipotentiary, prelatial, prelatic, presiding, priest-ridden, priestish, priestly, promoting, rabbinic, sacerdotal, serviceable, serving, subservient, subsidiary, supervisory, ultramontane, useful
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