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acolyte

/ak-uh-lahyt/US // ˈæk əˌlaɪt //UK // (ˈækəˌlaɪt) //

圣徒,圣职者,圣职人员,圣人

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Definitions

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

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Examples

  • 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.

  • In Specter’s telling, even Fauci’s onetime antagonists, Kramer chief among them, undergo conversion experiences and become acolytes.

  • 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.

  • Why do you think you were “an asperg-y movie fan…a jabbering repellent acolyte?”

  • Still, the tradition of a hero with a younger, or everyman, acolyte stretches back to antiquity.

  • One of these heroes is an insect-loving contemporary of Charles Darwin, the other a crocodile-wrestling Steve Irwin acolyte.

  • Yee was, as Brown writes, a Brown acolyte at one point, representing a district of middle class single-family homeowners.

  • Then, like a true BuzzFeeder acolyte, he added: “This story will blow over as soon as the Kardashians have a new kid.”

  • He was an acolyte sent forth with bowl and staff to beg for aid in certain temple repairs.

  • That the acolyte in Claude's case took the form of Louis Gentilis made him no more welcome.

  • The parish priest sat with his acolyte, who held a crucifix before his eyes so that his thoughts might not wander.

  • So from this you can see how nobly that young acolyte was provided with all that beseemed his future greatness.

  • After sermon the preacher returns to the altar, when a fourth functionary appears, whom we suppose must be termed an acolyte.