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1727.  Pope, etc., Art of Sinking, 118. Used in the praise and dispraise of ministerial and unministerial persons.

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1735.  Hervey, Mem. Geo. II. (1848), I. 492. One of the most impolitic unministerial acts I ever knew him guilty of.

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1816.  Coleridge, Lett. (1895), 660. The plain, unministerial … spirit of your writings.

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1863.  Edith J. May, Stronges of Netherstronge, 115. The perplexed minister recollected his office in time to repress a very unministerial reply.

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