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sacristan

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sacristan, sacrist
1. a person who has charge of the contents of a church, esp the sacred vessels, vestments, etc.
2. a less common word for sexton
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There I encountered a sacristan of about fifty, and a man dry and cold of mien.
The Gambler by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor View in context
I sneezed repeatedly---groaned---awakened and would have arisen, when the Sacristan and Abbot, full of terror, came running at the noise, surprised, doubtless, and no way pleased to find the man alive, whose heirs they had proposed themselves to be.
Ivanhoe by Scott, Walter View in context
A sacristan commanded one party which captured several hundred prisoners in the course of a month; and there was Vasilisa, the wife of a village elder, who slew hundreds of the French.
War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
 
 
 
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