Golden one in European department's made a minister (8)
I believe the answer is:
ordained
'made a minister' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both to do with communicating as well as being past participle verbs.
Maybe they are linked in a way I don't understand?
'golden one in european department's' is the wordplay.
'golden' becomes 'or' ('or' is the name for gold in heraldry).
'one' becomes 'i' (Roman numeral).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'european' becomes 'dane' (someone from Denmark).
'department' becomes 'd' (abbreviation eg in MOD Ministry of Defence).
'i' inserted inside 'dane' is 'daine'.
'or'+'daine'+'d'='ORDAINED'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for ordained that I've seen before include "Declared to be law or declared to be a priest" , "Like a priest" , "Laid down the law" , "Conferred holy orders on" , "Elevated to the priesthood" .)