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To attend the ministry of …
“On a Sunday the household marched away in separate groups to half-a-dozen edifices each to sit under his or her favourite minister.”—W. M. Thackeray.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.