Adjective : the missionary efforts of political fanatics. From Dictionary.com.
The acquaintance of Mrs Esselmont and the minister had commenced soon after the coming of Mr Hume -- then little more than a lad -- a "missioner" to Nethermuir. From Wordnik.com. [Allison Bain, or, By a Way she knew not] Reference
According to the missioner, there are many Christians in the Irrawaddy delta. From Wordnik.com. [Help Us Report on the Cyclone in Myanmar - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference
In 1587 he was sent by his superiors into Turkey, to labor as a missioner among the. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
No missioner whom it has been my joy to meet ever impressed me quite as much as Dr. Wilbur Chapman. From Wordnik.com. [The Kneeling Christian] Reference
He returned to England in 1856, and for over forty years led an active life as a missioner in England and. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference
He stood before the world as a social missioner; he made speeches at religious gatherings and affected the women to tears. From Wordnik.com. [The Crimson Blind] Reference
As Fizer walked to the podium to shake hands with NBA com missioner David Stern, he turned and waved to a cheering group in the crowd that included Iowa State teammates. From Wordnik.com. [NBA draft 2000] Reference
The missioner looked down upon his victim in horror. From Wordnik.com. [The Honor of the Big Snows] Reference
I've got a good bit of the instinct of the missioner. From Wordnik.com. [In the Wilderness] Reference
John Benoit (who became a Riverside Co. Co.missioner). From Wordnik.com. [Swing State Project] Reference
"The saints in Heaven, it is the missioner from Churchill!". From Wordnik.com. [The Honor of the Big Snows] Reference
"A little more, and he would have been with the missioner!". From Wordnik.com. [The Honor of the Big Snows] Reference
"That was why I tried to kill the missioner," said Jan at last. From Wordnik.com. [The Honor of the Big Snows] Reference
The qualities which he thinks requisite in a missioner to Japan. From Wordnik.com. [The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 16] Reference
But the missioner was already beckoning with a black-sleeved arm. From Wordnik.com. [Those Who Smiled And Eleven Other Stories] Reference
The missioner nodded, and his smile, though it flickered, survived. From Wordnik.com. [Those Who Smiled And Eleven Other Stories] Reference
You know him for the sort of missioner all these folks guess he is. From Wordnik.com. [The Man in the Twilight] Reference
"Mac, did you ever run across a missioner by the name of Enschede?". From Wordnik.com. [The Ragged Edge] Reference
The missioner shook his hand warmly, putting eloquence into the shake. From Wordnik.com. [Those Who Smiled And Eleven Other Stories] Reference
"I keel you slow -- slow!" he cried, as the missioner struggled weakly. From Wordnik.com. [The Honor of the Big Snows] Reference
Outside his missioner business I guess the guy was pretty wise, though. From Wordnik.com. [The Man in the Twilight] Reference
It was designed and built by Robert Aitken the famous Cornish missioner. From Wordnik.com. [The Cornish Riviera] Reference
"And then you will luf Jan Thoreau for letting out the blood of a missioner!". From Wordnik.com. [The Honor of the Big Snows] Reference
And when I came to it, was it not the dead body of the missioner from Churchill?. From Wordnik.com. [The Honor of the Big Snows] Reference
Goodwin discounted that; it was no more than the missioner had bidden her to say. From Wordnik.com. [Those Who Smiled And Eleven Other Stories] Reference
One missioner told me that she was the first foreign Catholic a group had ever met. From Wordnik.com. [Catholic Sensibility] Reference
Goodwin, recalled to himself, looked down into the kindly, narrow face of the missioner. From Wordnik.com. [Those Who Smiled And Eleven Other Stories] Reference
The missioner was already preparing to open the service, and conversation was impossible. From Wordnik.com. [Those Who Smiled And Eleven Other Stories] Reference
"Now!" said Goodwin, when at last the missioner had closed the service with his blessing. From Wordnik.com. [Those Who Smiled And Eleven Other Stories] Reference
"That missioner chap put me off it, and that's what I won't stand, so I'm going to have it now.". From Wordnik.com. [Taking Tales Instructive and Entertaining Reading] Reference
It was a fire hidden among the rocks, a tiny fire, over which the fleeing missioner was cooking his breakfast. From Wordnik.com. [The Honor of the Big Snows] Reference
The Magyars in Hungary were led to faith through loyalty to their temporal monarch, their royal missioner St. St.phen. From Wordnik.com. [Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity] Reference
With regard to this subject he related to me an amusing incident which occurred whilst he was a missioner in the Chablais. From Wordnik.com. [The Spirit of St. Francis de Sales] Reference
"There ees no missioner, Mélisse!" he cried triumphantly, dropping beside her, his face glowing with the gladness of his tidings. From Wordnik.com. [The Honor of the Big Snows] Reference
The reasons why the Portuguese never succeeded in making themselves masters of Sonho are reduced by the missioner annalists to three. From Wordnik.com. [Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2] Reference
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