acolyte / ˈæk əˌlaɪt /

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acolyte 的定义

n. 名词 noun
  1. an altar attendant in public worship.
  2. Roman Catholic Church. a member of the highest-ranking of the four minor orders.the order itself.Compare exorcist, lector, ostiary.
  3. any attendant, assistant, or follower.

acolyte 近义词

n. 名词 noun

attendant, usually in a church

acolyte 的近义词 4

更多acolyte例句

  1. She was looking for healthier alternatives and became a Null acolyte, working for a time as a counselor in his office and giving weekly cooking classes at his health-food restaurant.
  2. In Specter’s telling, even Fauci’s onetime antagonists, Kramer chief among them, undergo conversion experiences and become acolytes.
  3. Leach went 84-43 in 10 seasons as head coach at Texas Tech and 55-47 in eight seasons at Washington State, both relatively less heralded programs, and many of his and Mumme’s former players and assistants also became air raid acolytes.
  4. Why do you think you were “an asperg-y movie fan…a jabbering repellent acolyte?”
  5. Still, the tradition of a hero with a younger, or everyman, acolyte stretches back to antiquity.
  6. One of these heroes is an insect-loving contemporary of Charles Darwin, the other a crocodile-wrestling Steve Irwin acolyte.
  7. Yee was, as Brown writes, a Brown acolyte at one point, representing a district of middle class single-family homeowners.
  8. Then, like a true BuzzFeeder acolyte, he added: “This story will blow over as soon as the Kardashians have a new kid.”
  9. He was an acolyte sent forth with bowl and staff to beg for aid in certain temple repairs.
  10. That the acolyte in Claude's case took the form of Louis Gentilis made him no more welcome.
  11. The parish priest sat with his acolyte, who held a crucifix before his eyes so that his thoughts might not wander.
  12. So from this you can see how nobly that young acolyte was provided with all that beseemed his future greatness.
  13. After sermon the preacher returns to the altar, when a fourth functionary appears, whom we suppose must be termed an acolyte.