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Sacristan

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. One who is in charge of a sacristy.

n. A sexton.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. The person who maintains the sacristy and the sacred objects it contains.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. An officer of the church who has the care of the utensils or movables, and of the church in general; a sexton.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. 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.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. an officer of the church who is in charge of sacred objects

Word Usage

"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."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

caretaker church officer

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

sexton

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

beadle parish-clerk pew-opener verger organist