Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who is in charge of a sacristy.
- noun A sexton.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An officer of a church or monastery who has the charge of the sacristy and all its contents, and acts as custodian of the other vessels, vestments, and valuables of the church.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An officer of the church who has the care of the utensils or movables, and of the church in general; a sexton.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
person who maintains thesacristy and the sacred objects it contains.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an officer of the church who is in charge of sacred objects
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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But no more than the sacristan is the hemp-dresser gifted solely with the desire of frightening; he loves to make people laugh; he is sarcastic and sentimental at need, when love and marriage are to be sung.
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What followed was seen by only one person, that is, the sacristan's wife, a big, hard-faced woman with a faint mustache and a wart on her chin, who sat by the great column near the door dispensing holy water out of a cracked saucer and whining for pennies.
Through the Wall Cleveland Moffett 1894
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"Now do you go and call the sacristan from the bell," the prior said, "and bid him lead you to the chancel, where I shall be."
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The sacristan was a kind, gentle, little old man, who let me do whatever I wanted.
Essays on Life, Art and Science Samuel Butler 1868
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But no more than the sacristan is the hemp-dresser gifted solely with the desire of frightening; he loves to make people laugh; he is sarcastic and sentimental at need, when love and marriage are to be sung.
La mare au diable. English George Sand 1840
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Nor did it seem unlikely that a city which styled itself 'the nurse of Artemis' should also claim the less audacious title of 'sacristan' to this same goddess.
Essays on the work entitled "Supernatural Religion" Joseph Barber Lightfoot 1858
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Anne-Marie-Madeleine Thouret (Sister Charlotte of the Resurrection), sacristan, b. at Mouy, 16 Sept., 1715, professed 19 Aug., 1740, twice sub-prioress in 1764 and 1778.
The Holy Martyrs of Compiegne John 2009
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He founded the Mozarabic Chapel in Toledo cathedral, with an endowment for thirteen chaplains, a sacristan and two mazos sirvientes, and with provision for a sung Mass and the Divine Office daily.
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Mr. Moya alternates chapters of Haydée's diary with the comic misadventures of her son Clemen and his cousin Jimmy, both on the run from the regime, as they attempt to escape the country, shifting disguises—housemaid, priest, sacristan, livestock traders—and getting lost in a labyrinthine mangrove swamp.
Adios, Warlock Joshua Lustig 2011
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Anne-Marie-Madeleine Thouret (Sister Charlotte of the Resurrection), sacristan, b. at Mouy, 16 Sept., 1715, professed 19 Aug., 1740, twice sub-prioress in 1764 and 1778.
27 July -- Bl Titus Brandsma, O. Carm. John 2009
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